New Delhi: National carrier Air India has been directed by a consumer forum here to compensate a couple for the inconvenience caused to them after it failed to properly coordinate their connecting flight from London to Toronto.
A bench of New Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, presided by C K Chaturvedi, asked the airlines to pay Rs 15,000 to Noida resident Neelam Sachdev and her husband K B Sachdev.
The forum said that the airlines failed to properly coordinate with Air Canada, the flight to be taken by the complainants from London to Toronto, because of which they faced difficulties.
It noted that the couple had a direct flight from Delhi to Toronto but the airlines, without prior intimation, put them on a flight to London from where they had a connecting flight to Toronto.
"It was the duty of airlines having charged the money for full journey and changing confirmed direct flight to Toronto, for whatever reason, to avoid difficulties to complainants (the couple).
"Holding the airline guilty of deficiency, we direct it to pay Rs 10,000 to complainants for difficulties faced by them and pay Rs 5,000 for litigation expenses," it said. The couple had told the forum that they had to travel from Delhi to Toronto via Air India on March 31, 2007 and return on July 29, 2007.
21/01/15 NDTV
A bench of New Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, presided by C K Chaturvedi, asked the airlines to pay Rs 15,000 to Noida resident Neelam Sachdev and her husband K B Sachdev.
The forum said that the airlines failed to properly coordinate with Air Canada, the flight to be taken by the complainants from London to Toronto, because of which they faced difficulties.
It noted that the couple had a direct flight from Delhi to Toronto but the airlines, without prior intimation, put them on a flight to London from where they had a connecting flight to Toronto.
"It was the duty of airlines having charged the money for full journey and changing confirmed direct flight to Toronto, for whatever reason, to avoid difficulties to complainants (the couple).
"Holding the airline guilty of deficiency, we direct it to pay Rs 10,000 to complainants for difficulties faced by them and pay Rs 5,000 for litigation expenses," it said. The couple had told the forum that they had to travel from Delhi to Toronto via Air India on March 31, 2007 and return on July 29, 2007.
21/01/15 NDTV
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