{"id":375302,"date":"2020-09-25T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375302"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:33:33","slug":"ministry-allows-airlines-to-decide-domestic-baggage-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ministry-allows-airlines-to-decide-domestic-baggage-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry allows airlines to decide domestic baggage limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation ministry has allowed airlines to decide on baggage limitations for domestic passengers \u2014 an indication that the sector may resume normal flight schedules soon.<br \/>\nPassengers were so far allowed only one check-in bag on domestic flights since May 25.<\/p>\n<p>Before domestic flights were suspended on March 25, Air India would allow check-in luggage of up to 25 kg and private airlines \u2014 with some limiting the number of bags \u2014 up to 15 kg for economy flyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matter has been reviewed based on inputs received from stakeholders. Considering the convenience of passengers, it has been decided to (allow)\u2026 baggage limitation according to airlines\u2019 policies,\u201d said an order issued by Usha Padhee, joint secretary in the aviation ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation ministry has allowed airlines to decide on baggage limitations for domestic passengers \u2014 an indication that the sector may resume normal flight schedules soon. Passengers were so far allowed only one check-in bag on domestic flights since May 25. Before domestic flights were suspended on March 25, Air India would allow check-in luggage of up to 25 kg and private airlines \u2014 with some limiting the number of bags \u2014 up to 15 kg for economy flyers. \u201cThe matter has been reviewed based on inputs received from stakeholders. Considering the convenience of passengers, it has been decided to [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375302","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=375302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}