{"id":273048,"date":"2019-05-06T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273048"},"modified":"2019-05-06T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:38:17","slug":"cyclone-fani-dgca-to-issue-revised-guidelines-to-airlines-as-and-when-necessary-says-suresh-prabhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cyclone-fani-dgca-to-issue-revised-guidelines-to-airlines-as-and-when-necessary-says-suresh-prabhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Fani: DGCA to issue revised guidelines to airlines as and when necessary, says Suresh Prabhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA will issue revised advisories to airlines \u201cas and when necessary\u201d in view of the cyclone \u2018Fani\u2019, said Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu Friday. Prabhu also said that he has directed Pradeep Singh Kharola, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, to \u201ccontinuously monitor the situation\u201d. Cyclone \u2018Fani\u2019 rolled through Odisha on Friday, packing rain and windstorm that gusted up to 175 kmph, leaving at least three people dead, blowing away thatched houses, and swamping towns and villages. In a series of tweets about the cyclone, Prabhu said he will pledge funds from Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) if necessary \u201cas per the extant rule\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirected Secretary (MOCA) to continuously monitor the situation. DGCA will be issuing revised advisories to Airlines as and when necessary. Taking all possible steps for passenger safety and to minimise their inconvenience,\u201d he added. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Friday said no flights will depart or arrive at Kolkata airport from 3 pm Friday to 8 am Saturday in view of the cyclonic storm \u2018Fani\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA will issue revised advisories to airlines \u201cas and when necessary\u201d in view of the cyclone \u2018Fani\u2019, said Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu Friday. Prabhu also said that he has directed Pradeep Singh Kharola, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, to \u201ccontinuously monitor the situation\u201d. Cyclone \u2018Fani\u2019 rolled through Odisha on Friday, packing rain and windstorm that gusted up to 175 kmph, leaving at least three people dead, blowing away thatched houses, and swamping towns and villages. In a series of tweets about the cyclone, Prabhu said he will pledge funds from Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}