{"id":331472,"date":"2020-01-30T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=331472"},"modified":"2020-01-30T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:20:01","slug":"air-india-pilots-union-sounds-caution-on-wuhan-evacuation-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pilots-union-sounds-caution-on-wuhan-evacuation-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilots union sounds caution on Wuhan evacuation flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : With Air India preparing to operate flights to evacuate Indians from Wuhan in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, a pilots&#8217; union of the carrier on Wednesday said the airline cannot afford any mistakes and risk spreading the infection. In a letter to Air India chief Ashwani Lohani, the Indian Pilots&#8217; Guild (IPG) said the mission would be quite different from usual rescue and relief efforts, and presents new challenges as well as obstacles to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; due to the long incubation period of this virus, post mission support for all personnel and equipment involved in this mission is crucial well after the completion of a flight,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The union has around 600 members.<\/p>\n<p>Two flights are set to be operated to bring back Indian nationals from China&#8217;s Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : With Air India preparing to operate flights to evacuate Indians from Wuhan in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, a pilots&#8217; union of the carrier on Wednesday said the airline cannot afford any mistakes and risk spreading the infection. In a letter to Air India chief Ashwani Lohani, the Indian Pilots&#8217; Guild (IPG) said the mission would be quite different from usual rescue and relief efforts, and presents new challenges as well as obstacles to overcome. &#8220;&#8230; due to the long incubation period of this virus, post mission support for all personnel and equipment involved in this mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331472","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}