{"id":336783,"date":"2020-02-11T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336783"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:00:04","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-dgca-suspends-pre-flight-alcohol-test-at-kerala-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-outbreak-dgca-suspends-pre-flight-alcohol-test-at-kerala-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus outbreak: DGCA suspends pre-flight alcohol test at Kerala airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stopped the pre-flight breathalyzer (BA) test for the aircrew operating out of Kerala\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mandatory BA test for flight crew who are operating out of Kerala\u2019s airports has been stopped for the next 15 days in light of coronavirus situation,\u201d a senior official of the DGCA said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, added that the crew working in flights departing from any one of Kerala\u2019s four airports &#8211; Kozhikode, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, and Kochi &#8211; will compulsorily undergo post-flight BA tests at the next immediate city where they land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stopped the pre-flight breathalyzer (BA) test for the aircrew operating out of Kerala\u2019s 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. \u201cThe mandatory BA test for flight crew who are operating out of Kerala\u2019s airports has been stopped for the next 15 days in light of coronavirus situation,\u201d a senior official of the DGCA said. He, however, added that the crew working in flights departing from any one of Kerala\u2019s four airports [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336783","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=336783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}