{"id":344129,"date":"2020-03-30T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344129"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:59:25","slug":"air-india-pilots-union-asks-dgca-to-temporarily-suspend-pre-flight-and-post-flight-alcohol-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pilots-union-asks-dgca-to-temporarily-suspend-pre-flight-and-post-flight-alcohol-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilots union asks DGCA to temporarily suspend pre-flight and post-flight alcohol tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: After SpiceJetNSE -1.90 % stated on Sunday that one of its pilots has tested positive for COVID-19, an Air India pilots union requested aviation regulator DGCA to temporarily suspend breath analyzer (BA) test as it can lead to spread of infection.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Spicejet pilot&#8217;s case, a letter by Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) stated that &#8220;continuing BA Tests in these circumstances is extremely dangerous&#8221; as the machine for the test remains the same and droplets or aerosols of infected pilots may infect the healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: After SpiceJetNSE -1.90 % stated on Sunday that one of its pilots has tested positive for COVID-19, an Air India pilots union requested aviation regulator DGCA to temporarily suspend breath analyzer (BA) test as it can lead to spread of infection. Referring to the Spicejet pilot&#8217;s case, a letter by Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) stated that &#8220;continuing BA Tests in these circumstances is extremely dangerous&#8221; as the machine for the test remains the same and droplets or aerosols of infected pilots may infect the healthy.<\/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-344129","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\/344129","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=344129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}