{"id":355855,"date":"2020-06-06T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355855"},"modified":"2020-06-06T10:12:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T04:42:54","slug":"bombay-high-court-allows-domestic-airlines-to-fill-up-middle-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bombay-high-court-allows-domestic-airlines-to-fill-up-middle-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay High Court allows domestic airlines to fill up middle seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court has allowed domestic airlines to fill up middle seats in aircraft in strict compliance with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation&#8217;s (DGCA) May 31 order and other applicable rules. <\/p>\n<p>The high court issued the order on Friday while hearing a petition filed by Air India pilot Deven Kanani who said social distancing was not being maintained on flights as the airline was filling up all the seats. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flight operators including Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 ( Air India and Air India Express ) shall allow the passengers to occupy the middle seat strictly in compliance with the circular dated May 31, 2020 and the applicable SOPs \/ circulars \/ guidelines issued from time to time by the concerned authorities,&#8221; a division bench of Justice S P Tavade and Justice S J Kathawalla said in their interim order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court has allowed domestic airlines to fill up middle seats in aircraft in strict compliance with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation&#8217;s (DGCA) May 31 order and other applicable rules. The high court issued the order on Friday while hearing a petition filed by Air India pilot Deven Kanani who said social distancing was not being maintained on flights as the airline was filling up all the seats. &#8220;The flight operators including Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 ( Air India and Air India Express ) shall allow the passengers to occupy the middle seat strictly in compliance [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355855","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=355855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}