{"id":354963,"date":"2020-06-02T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354963"},"modified":"2020-06-02T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:50:11","slug":"keep-middle-seats-empty-on-domestic-flights-whenever-possible-dgca-to-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/keep-middle-seats-empty-on-domestic-flights-whenever-possible-dgca-to-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep middle seats empty on domestic flights whenever possible, DGCA to airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed airlines to allot seats to passengers in such a manner so that the middle seat is kept vacant, provided load factor and seat capacity permit the arrangement, a senior official with the watchdog said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, members of the same family will be allowed to sit together,&#8221; the official said requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>These directions will come into compliance from 3 June, the official added.<\/p>\n<p>The new directives wll likely complicate the airlines\u2019 return to normalcy after a two-month closure to prevent covid-19 from spreading. They kick in after India\u2019s airlines resumed domestic operations on 25 May, including at coronavirus hotspots of Delhi and Mumbai, host to the country\u2019s busiest airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed airlines to allot seats to passengers in such a manner so that the middle seat is kept vacant, provided load factor and seat capacity permit the arrangement, a senior official with the watchdog said. &#8220;However, members of the same family will be allowed to sit together,&#8221; the official said requesting anonymity. These directions will come into compliance from 3 June, the official added. The new directives wll likely complicate the airlines\u2019 return to normalcy after a two-month closure to prevent covid-19 from spreading. They kick in after India\u2019s airlines resumed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354963","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}