{"id":5881,"date":"2018-10-22T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:34:55","slug":"non-refundable-bangladesh-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/non-refundable-bangladesh-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-refundable Bangladesh permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bangladesh-AIC-2_2018.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5885 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AIC-274x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AIC-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AIC.png 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a>The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh recently published <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bangladesh-AIC-2_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">circular 02\/2018<\/a> which outlines a $195 USD overflight permit fee for non-scheduled foreign aircraft transiting the <strong>VGFR\/Dhaka<\/strong> FIR . The fee is certainly on the high side but the disappointing part is :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The payment is <strong>non-refundable<\/strong>, irrespective of the approval <strong>or rejection<\/strong> to the permit request.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><em><strong>Say what?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>There was a <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/frustration-with-new-curacao-fir-billing-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar type of no-refund situation<\/a> within the <strong>TNCF\/Curaco<\/strong> FIR but we now understand after some noise, operators are getting refunds as per normal industry practice.<\/p>\n<p>We say it&#8217;s time for the CAA in Bangladesh to stop this non-refundable nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Have you had a permit denied and not received your money back? Reach out and <a href=\"mailto:news@fsbureau.org\">Let us know!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh recently published circular 02\/2018 which outlines a $195 USD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,319],"tags":[535,1148,97,1289],"class_list":{"0":"post-5881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"category-news-item","9":"tag-bangladesh","10":"tag-billing","11":"tag-overflight","12":"tag-refund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9698,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions\/9698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}