Airline Loses Baggage

Delhi State Consumer Commission has directed British Airways to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation for losing a bag of a passenger who was flying to London eight years ago.

Airlines will soon have to compensate passengers more for losing their baggage, injuries caused, or exceptional delays.

If you are an airline passenger returning from a shopping spree, then it would be wise to carry your luggage as hand baggage or be subjected by the airlines to a frustratingly long wait or paltry compensation in the event that your belongings are misplaced or lost.

On August 20, Hyderabad resident Jayakumar Bhavanishankar boarded Indigo flight 6E 247 for Mumbai from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. While collecting his baggage from the conveyer belt at the destination he noticed the side zips to a bag were open and the seal put on them by the airline was broken.

The Supreme Court has chided the airline companies for frequent loss of passengers' baggage and upheld a Rs 9.3 lakh penalty imposed on international carrier Royal Jordanian Airlines for misplacing a couple's baggage."Aap log to passengers ko pareshan kar rakha hai (you have harassed the passengers). These days, there are a lot of complaints from p...

Delhi State Consumer Commission has directed British Airways to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation for losing a bag of a passenger who was flying to London eight years ago.

Airlines will soon have to compensate passengers more for losing their baggage, injuries caused, or exceptional delays.

If you are an airline passenger returning from a shopping spree, then it would be wise to carry your luggage as hand baggage or be subjected by the airlines to a frustratingly long wait or paltry compensation in the event that your belongings are misplaced or lost.

On August 20, Hyderabad resident Jayakumar Bhavanishankar boarded Indigo flight 6E 247 for Mumbai from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. While collecting his baggage from the conveyer belt at the destination he noticed the side zips to a bag were open and the seal put on them by the airline was broken.

The Supreme Court has chided the airline companies for frequent loss of passengers' baggage and upheld a Rs 9.3 lakh penalty imposed on international carrier Royal Jordanian Airlines for misplacing a couple's baggage."Aap log to passengers ko pareshan kar rakha hai (you have harassed the passengers). These days, there are a lot of complaints from p...