{"id":372177,"date":"2020-09-07T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T02:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372177"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:54:01","slug":"dgca-orders-resumption-of-pre-flight-alcohol-test-for-pilots-cabin-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-orders-resumption-of-pre-flight-alcohol-test-for-pilots-cabin-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA orders resumption of pre-flight alcohol test for pilots, cabin crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday ordered airlines to resume pre-flight alcohol tests for pilots and cabin crew members. <\/p>\n<p>The aviation regulator had on March 29 this year suspended breath analyser (BA) test for &#8220;all aviation personnel&#8221; like pilots, cabin crew members, ground handling staff and air traffic controllers due to the &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; circumstances posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and given the directions issued by the high courts in Delhi and Kerala. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In partial modification of the DGCA order&#8230; dated 29.03.2020, this is to convey that the employer\/organization shall ensure flight crew member and the cabin crew member shall undergo pre-flight BA test,&#8221; said the regulator in an order dated September 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday ordered airlines to resume pre-flight alcohol tests for pilots and cabin crew members. The aviation regulator had on March 29 this year suspended breath analyser (BA) test for &#8220;all aviation personnel&#8221; like pilots, cabin crew members, ground handling staff and air traffic controllers due to the &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; circumstances posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and given the directions issued by the high courts in Delhi and Kerala. &#8220;In partial modification of the DGCA order&#8230; dated 29.03.2020, this is to convey that the employer\/organization shall ensure flight crew member and the cabin crew [&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-372177","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\/372177","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=372177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}