{"id":289489,"date":"2019-08-30T05:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289489"},"modified":"2019-08-30T05:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:19:32","slug":"air-india-to-ban-plastic-products-like-cups-straws-on-flights-from-october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-to-ban-plastic-products-like-cups-straws-on-flights-from-october-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India to ban plastic products like cups, straws on flights from October 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air India is set to impose a ban on plastic products like bags, cups and straws on all its flights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From October 2, we are going to completely ban the use of plastics in Air India and the low-cost subsidiary Air India Express,&#8221; said Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>For special meals, the airline will use eco-friendly birch wood cutlery in place of plastic cutlery. Crew meal cutlery will be replaced with light-weight steel cutlery. Plastic tumblers and teacups will be replaced with paper versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air India is set to impose a ban on plastic products like bags, cups and straws on all its flights. &#8220;From October 2, we are going to completely ban the use of plastics in Air India and the low-cost subsidiary Air India Express,&#8221; said Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani on Thursday. For special meals, the airline will use eco-friendly birch wood cutlery in place of plastic cutlery. Crew meal cutlery will be replaced with light-weight steel cutlery. Plastic tumblers and teacups will be replaced with paper versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289489","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}