After a lockdown of over 60 days, airlines have finally resumed operations in a staggered fashion but the uncertainty around air travel still continues.
The constant back and forth between the aviation ministry and the states on flight operations caused chaos on the first day of resumption with hundreds of flights being cancelled.
In a bid to offer some respite to passengers booking flight tickets in the next few weeks, online travel agents (OTAs) such as Ixigo and HappyEasyGo have come up with special trip cancellation covers.
Most of these covers come at the cost of a few hundred rupees but are they worth buying? What’s on offer? Just after the decision to restart flights was made, HappyEasyGo sent promotional SMSes offering “free