{"id":341537,"date":"2020-03-12T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341537"},"modified":"2020-03-12T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T05:29:04","slug":"amid-coronavirus-scare-ai-pilots-body-seeks-exemption-from-breath-analyser-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-coronavirus-scare-ai-pilots-body-seeks-exemption-from-breath-analyser-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid coronavirus scare, AI pilots&#8217; body seeks exemption from breath analyser test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: An Air India pilots&#8217; grouping has urged civil aviation regulator DGCA to exempt pilots from the mandatory pre and post-flight alcohol tests, amid the coronavirus scare. In a letter to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation chief Arun Kumar, the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) said the virus is &#8220;highly dangerous&#8221; for the airline&#8217;s crew involved in international flight operations as it poses an &#8220;elevated risk&#8221; of exposure to the cockpit crew.<\/p>\n<p>IPG, which has around 600 members, represents pilots of Air India&#8217;s wide-body planes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The present outbreak of coronavirus is highly dangerous for our crew given the elevated risk of exposure involved in our global operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: An Air India pilots&#8217; grouping has urged civil aviation regulator DGCA to exempt pilots from the mandatory pre and post-flight alcohol tests, amid the coronavirus scare. In a letter to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation chief Arun Kumar, the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) said the virus is &#8220;highly dangerous&#8221; for the airline&#8217;s crew involved in international flight operations as it poses an &#8220;elevated risk&#8221; of exposure to the cockpit crew. IPG, which has around 600 members, represents pilots of Air India&#8217;s wide-body planes. &#8220;The present outbreak of coronavirus is highly dangerous for our crew given the elevated risk [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341537","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\/341537","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=341537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}