The User Development Fee (UDF) is a per-passenger charge on your ticket that helps pay to build, upgrade and run an airport. In India the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) sets or approves it at major airports, so the amount varies from one airport to another. It sits inside the taxes and fees, and it’s […]
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If your last flight of the day is cancelled, DGCA rules let you choose a full refund or a seat on the next available flight. When the cancellation is the airline’s fault, it typically must also provide meals and, for an overnight wait, hotel accommodation, plus compensation. Weather and air-traffic delays are treated as beyond
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Under the DGCA’s passenger-care rules (CAR Section 3, Series M), Indian airlines must provide free meals and refreshments during long delays, and hotel accommodation when a delay stretches overnight, as long as the delay is within the airline’s control. The exact wait before meals depends on your flight’s length. Weather, ATC and other extraordinary events
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If an airline shuts down, its frequent-flyer miles usually become worthless. The loyalty programme stops honouring them, and members rank as unsecured creditors with little chance of a payout. Points earned on a co-branded or bank credit card are safer, because you can often move them to another airline or hotel partner first. The rule
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Usually no. Airlines and travel sites generally do not refund the difference if your flight gets cheaper after you book, because airfares are dynamic and each fare is sold at the price live when you paid. There is no automatic price-match like some hotels offer. Your realistic options are cancel-and-rebook math, a free-cancellation add-on, or
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A zero-cancellation add-on is an optional paid product, usually sold by travel sites, that refunds most of your base fare if you cancel within a set window, minus a small fee. It is separate from the airline’s own refund and from DGCA’s short free-cancellation window after booking. It is worth it mainly when your plans
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You must declare anything beyond your personal duty-free allowance: dutiable goods worth more than Rs 75,000, gold or silver above the duty-free limit, gold bars or coins (always dutiable), and foreign currency cash over USD 5,000 (or over USD 10,000 including traveller’s cheques). You must also declare any prohibited or restricted items, such as satellite
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Never put power banks or spare lithium batteries in checked luggage — they are cabin-only by aviation safety rules. Also keep cash, jewellery, laptops, phones, passports, essential medicines, keys, fragile items and important documents with you in the cabin. Checked bags can be lost, delayed or opened, and airline liability for a lost bag is
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Yes. You can lock your checked luggage on flights in India, and most travellers do. Cabin bags are usually left unlocked because screening staff need quick access. TSA-approved locks matter mainly for trips through the United States, where security can open them with a master key. In India, CISF or airline staff may still ask
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The Green Channel is for passengers with nothing dutiable or restricted to declare, meaning you are within the free allowance (Rs 75,000 for most adult travellers). The Red Channel is for anyone carrying dutiable or restricted goods, or value above the allowance. Walking through Green when you should use Red is an offence under the
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