Prepared a decree, specified in the explanatory note to the project, should establish the legal basis for the use of passengers “paid carriage charges to pay for future carrier services, including tickets for other destinations, within three years from the date of cancellation of a flight”. The project activity applies to contracts of carriage concluded before may 1, 2020.
There also are cases in which this scheme of return passenger flow can be applied. In particular, in the case of adoption it will apply to cases of refund of carriage charges on domestic and international flights cancelled due to coronaviruses infection, and refusal of the passenger from air carriage for flights that were not canceled.
“the Passenger in his statement is a confirmation of that previously paid by the passenger the funds can be used for the conclusion of a new contract of air carriage. After a 3-year period, unused money is returned to the passenger,” reads the document.
Also, the project provides the right of the carrier to unilaterally change the terms of the contract of air carriage of the passenger by date, time and route with the obligatory notice to the passenger.
the Project applies to contracts of air carriage of passengers, who were to be implemented by February 1 for international cargo from China and from March 18 for all domestic shipments and other international transportation.
As reported earlier, on 6 April 2020, the international air transport Association (IATA) recognized the Deposit vouchers are a legitimate form of refund for the tickets and called on regulators in all countries to allow legal trade Deposit vouchers airlines to avoid devastating consequences for the aviation industry. IATA estimates the amount of current debt of the airline returns 35
billion US dollars and the fall in revenues from the sale of tickets, compared with the same period of 2019 – by 44%.
