NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday directed security agencies to deny airport entry to passengers who are not wearing masks.
\nAs per the latest guidelines, passengers who refuse to wear masks properly before take off will be taken off the aircraft.
\nWhile, passengers who do not wear the mask as per “Covid-19 protocols”, which essentially involve wearing of masks properly — not below the nose, despite repeated warnings will be treated as ‘unruly’.
\nThe DGCA has directed airlines, airport operators and CISF to ensure that passengers wear masks and maintain social distancing norms at all times during air travel and also at all times within the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday directed security agencies to deny airport entry to passengers who are not wearing masks. As per the latest guidelines, passengers who refuse to wear masks properly before take off will be taken off the aircraft. While, passengers who do not wear the mask as per “Covid-19 protocols”, which essentially involve wearing of masks properly — not below the nose, despite repeated warnings will be treated as ‘unruly’. The DGCA has directed airlines, airport operators and CISF to ensure that passengers wear masks and maintain social distancing norms at all […]<\/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-404885","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\/404885","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=404885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}