{"id":355999,"date":"2020-06-06T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T07:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355999"},"modified":"2020-06-06T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T07:29:18","slug":"ppe-prevents-spread-of-covid-19-dgca-committee-on-leaving-middle-seats-vacant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ppe-prevents-spread-of-covid-19-dgca-committee-on-leaving-middle-seats-vacant\/","title":{"rendered":"PPE prevents spread of Covid-19: DGCA committee on leaving middle seats vacant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay high court (HC) has directed all the airlines providing domestic and international flight services, including the Vande Bharat Mission rescue mission for stranded Indian nationals abroad, to adhere to the May 31 guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) until it pronounces its order in a writ petition filed by a pilot of the national carrier, Air India.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot had opposed Air India\u2019s move to fill up the middle seats on flights that the DGCA\u2019s March 23 order had ordered to keep vacant in a bid to adhere to social distancing norms because of the raging coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>He had moved court after he flew on a special Vande Bharat Mission flight to repatriate stranded Indian nationals from abroad and found that Air India authorities were flouting the DGCA norms about keeping the middle seats on a flight empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay high court (HC) has directed all the airlines providing domestic and international flight services, including the Vande Bharat Mission rescue mission for stranded Indian nationals abroad, to adhere to the May 31 guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) until it pronounces its order in a writ petition filed by a pilot of the national carrier, Air India. The pilot had opposed Air India\u2019s move to fill up the middle seats on flights that the DGCA\u2019s March 23 order had ordered to keep vacant in a bid to adhere to [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355999","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=355999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}