No Extra Charge To Sit With Your Parent: DGCA

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    • Publish Date: Apr 23 2024 1:45PM
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    • Updated Date: Apr 23 2024 1:45PM
No Extra Charge To Sit With Your Parent: DGCA

Airlines will now have to ensure that young children are seated with at least one of their parents or guardians on flights without being required to pay extra for seat selection charge if travelling on the same PNR (booking reference).

Following numerous complaints from passengers travelling in groups about being seated separately — especially from their children — if they choose not to pay extra for seat selection, the DGCA on Tuesday issued a directive to airlines on this issue.

“Airlines shall ensure that children up to the age of 12 years are allocated seats with at least one of their parents/guardians, who are travelling on the same PNR and a record of the same shall be maintained,” says an amended rule by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
 
The regulator’s Air Transport Circular (ATC)-01 of 2024 titled “unbundle of services and fees by scheduled airlines” allows airlines to charge extra for services like zero baggage, preferential seating, meals, snacks, beverages, and
carriage of musical instruments. On an opt-in basis, passengers can choose to pay for these extra services if they desire to do so.
“Such unbundled services are provided on ‘opt-in’ basis by airlines and are not mandatory. There is also aprovision for auto seat assignment to passengers who have not selected any seat for web check-in before scheduled departure. In view of the various instances that came to the notice of DGCA wherein children below the age of 12 years were not seated along with their parent/guardian, the existing Air Transport Circular 01 of 2021 has been suitably modified,” a senior official said.
The issue of people travelling in groups being seated separately if they do not pay extra for seat selection has been irking travellers across the world and not just in India. The US, for instance, has been grappling with this issue.
 

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