The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has said regulators of the aviation sector will begin to compel airlines to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights by January 2024. Keyamo also assured all that a list of airlines that delayed or cancelled flights will be published in the media on a weekly basis as part of the compensation scheme . We are starting that in January.”The aviation minister proposed that a discount should be deducted from the flight tickets of airlines that delayed passengers as part of the compensation. Keyamo stated, “For every delay, there is a report, an actual report by the regulator , what did they do? That passenger must be given a 50 per cent rebate or 40 per cent rebate because they must be a rebate”.

Source: Punch December 13, 2023 15:23 UTC