China airlines to set up new flight delay compensation rules

But denied that the specific amount of compensation has been issued to the standard, said also in the request for comment stage Xu Yuanquan in recent media on the Chinese Air Transport Association issued a new regulation, "flight delays more than 4 hours of cash compensation" report, the Chinese Air Transport Association yesterday denied. Domestic media recently reported that "flight delays more than 4 hours passengers can receive cash compensation."　　reported that the China Air Transport Association to Hubei Airport Group has issued a new flight delay compensation norms, in the new norms, flights due to carrier reasons for delay of 4-8 hours passengers will be 200 yuan cash compensation, 8 hours or more to obtain 300 yuan cash compensation. In response, the relevant people in China Aviation Association responded that the association did not send this specification to Hubei Airport Group Corporation. The person said that the Air Services Association is a civil aviation company as the main body of the national community, not to the airport issued such norms. However, the association also revealed that the Institute has recently issued a number of domestic airlines flight delay compensation processing of the draft, the request for comment stage will continue until early March next year. And said that after the end of the consultation, the Civil Aviation Authority will be the final policy formulation and issued.　　As for the possible date of policy launch and implementation, AVIC said it was unable to make forecasts and responses.　　Whether there is any discrepancy between the draft of the request for comments issued by AVIC and the media coverage, China Airlines Association first pointed out that the airline to arrange passengers to travel in the original expected arrival time within 4 hours to arrive at the destination without compensation, this provision is not in the opinion of the draft, compensation "and high-speed railway has no relationship."　　And for the media coverage of the 4-8 hours of 200 yuan, more than 8 hours of 300 yuan cash compensation for the specific number of the Air China Airlines Association did not explicitly deny, but also said that the specific amount and the program is currently only in the request for advice, but also need further refinement. 2004, the CAAC announced the "Flight delay economic Compensation guidance" stipulates that the flight for the reasons of the carrier delay of 4-8 hours or more than 8 hours, to provide economic compensation to passengers, can be cash, discount tickets and return mileage and other means to cash. However, the opinions do not specify the amount, and the current airline compensation programmes are very different. (Xu Yuanquan)