{"id":375264,"date":"2020-09-25T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375264"},"modified":"2020-09-25T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:36:06","slug":"domestic-flights-airlines-allowed-to-return-to-their-own-check-in-baggage-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-flights-airlines-allowed-to-return-to-their-own-check-in-baggage-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic flights: Airlines allowed to return to their own check-in baggage policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Airlines are now free to implement their own check-in baggage policies. When domestic flights were allowed on May 25 after a two-month lockdown suspension, the aviation ministry had asked airlines to allow one check-in bag of up to 20 kg per passenger.<br \/>\nBefore domestic flights were suspended on March 25, Air India used to allow check-in bag of up to 25 kg and private airlines \u2014 with some limiting number of bags also \u2014 up to 15 kg for economy passengers. Now, airlines can return to their pre-pandemic baggage allowances.<br \/>\nAir India says it will now allow domestic passengers in economy and business class to check-in upto 25 kg and 35 kg, respectively \u201cin view of the recent relaxation by the aviation ministry.\u201d<br \/>\nAir India Express says it \u201cpermits 25 kg as checked-in (on domestic flights) and 7 kg as hand bags which continues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Airlines are now free to implement their own check-in baggage policies. When domestic flights were allowed on May 25 after a two-month lockdown suspension, the aviation ministry had asked airlines to allow one check-in bag of up to 20 kg per passenger. Before domestic flights were suspended on March 25, Air India used to allow check-in bag of up to 25 kg and private airlines \u2014 with some limiting number of bags also \u2014 up to 15 kg for economy passengers. Now, airlines can return to their pre-pandemic baggage allowances. Air India says it will now allow domestic [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375264","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=375264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}