{"id":336642,"date":"2020-02-10T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T05:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336642"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:26:42","slug":"coronavirus-dgca-suspends-pre-flight-alcohol-test-at-kerala-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-dgca-suspends-pre-flight-alcohol-test-at-kerala-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: DGCA suspends pre-flight alcohol test at Kerala airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA has stopped the pre-flight breathalyzer (BA) test for the aircrew operating out of Kerala&#8217;s four airports during the next 15 days in the wake of the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The breathalyzer (BA) test measures whether a person is drunk or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mandatory BA test for flight crew who are operating out of Kerala&#8217;s airports has been stopped for the next 15 days in light of coronavirus situation,&#8221; a senior official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, added that the crew working in flights departing from any one of Kerala&#8217;s four airports &#8211; Calicut, Kannur, Trivandrum and Cochin &#8211; will compulsorily undergo post-flight BA tests at the next immediate city where they land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA has stopped the pre-flight breathalyzer (BA) test for the aircrew operating out of Kerala&#8217;s four airports during the next 15 days in the wake of the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak. The breathalyzer (BA) test measures whether a person is drunk or not. &#8220;The mandatory BA test for flight crew who are operating out of Kerala&#8217;s airports has been stopped for the next 15 days in light of coronavirus situation,&#8221; a senior official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said. He, however, added that the crew working in flights departing from any one of [&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-336642","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\/336642","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=336642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}