Originally Posted by
IanFromHKG
This sounds like the EU261 rule - but as that is a European Union rule and yours wasn't a European flight, it wouldn't apply. Am I mistaken about your source? If so, where did you find the details?
In any event, I am sorry to hear that you and your fellow pax had such a bad time
Even I was not aware of such Indian law. It was put forth by DGCA and I found the document on Cathay/Dragon Air Indian websites as well. I do have a copy with me - I am not sure how to upload it.
Please refer here :
If during your travel within, or to/from India, there is a flight cancellation or delay or denied boarding on a flight for which you hold a valid and confirmed reservation, you are entitled to certain rights in accordance with the Civil Aviation Requirements, Section 3 – Air Transport, Series ‘M”, Part IV, Issue 1, dated 6th August, 2010, effective 15th August, 2010, passed by the Director General of Civil Aviation.
For your ready reference, we give below a summary of these rights. Full text of this CAR is available on
http://dgca.nic.in/rules/car-ind.htm
Originally Posted by
IanFromHKG
Do you have a source for this? There has been speculation before, but never any confirmation that I have seen, and most sources I gave seen suggest it is unlikely as HK rules usually limit routes to two carriers from each country and CX/KA don't want to allow another entrant, and also because India doesn't want CX to expand further on Indian routes
I too doubt this happening. Currently KA flies only to BLR and Kolkata in India and afaik CX/KA agreements were made in such a way that they don't take each other routes - of course this was before CX fully acquired KA. May be there are some legal issues for CX to take this route.