{"id":374200,"date":"2020-09-19T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374200"},"modified":"2020-09-19T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:11:37","slug":"dubai-suspends-air-india-express-flights-till-2-oct-for-flouting-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dubai-suspends-air-india-express-flights-till-2-oct-for-flouting-covid-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai suspends Air India Express flights till 2 Oct for flouting covid rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has suspended all operations of Air India Express\u2014the no-frill subsidiary of national carrier Air India Ltd\u2014to operate across all airports in the country till 2 October after the airline was found to have carried covid-19 infected passengers on board of its flight to the Gulf nation on 4 September.<\/p>\n<p>According to a communication addressed to the airline&#8217;s regional manager of Gulf, Middle East and Africa region on 17 September, Dubai&#8217;s Civil Aviation Authority states that it is suspending the airline&#8217;s operation in Dubai for a fortnight starting 18 September as the air carrier violated laid down protocols by carrying covid-19 infected passenger for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boarding a passenger with covid-19 positive test result for the second time, is contrary to and is in violation of the laid down procedures and\/or protocols related to air travel to and from airports in the Emirate of Dubai, during the coronavirus SARS Cov. 2 pandemic,&#8221; the communication from Dubai&#8217;s aviation regulator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has suspended all operations of Air India Express\u2014the no-frill subsidiary of national carrier Air India Ltd\u2014to operate across all airports in the country till 2 October after the airline was found to have carried covid-19 infected passengers on board of its flight to the Gulf nation on 4 September. According to a communication addressed to the airline&#8217;s regional manager of Gulf, Middle East and Africa region on 17 September, Dubai&#8217;s Civil Aviation Authority states that it is suspending the airline&#8217;s operation in Dubai for a fortnight starting 18 September as the air carrier violated [&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-374200","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\/374200","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=374200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}