{"id":405165,"date":"2021-03-16T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405165"},"modified":"2021-03-16T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T07:14:03","slug":"flyers-rebuffing-masks-face-extended-faa-zero-tolerance-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flyers-rebuffing-masks-face-extended-faa-zero-tolerance-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers rebuffing masks face extended FAA \u2018zero-tolerance\u2019 stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US aviation regulators will continue what they call a \u201czero-tolerance\u201d policy against passengers who refuse to wear face masks on airline flights. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration in January announced it was being more aggressive about enforcing existing federal laws that require passengers to follow the crew\u2019s safety instructions, but the policy expired at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policy directs our safety inspectors and attorneys to take strong enforcement action against any passenger who disrupts or threatens the safety of a flight, with penalties ranging from fines to jail time,\u201d FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said in an emailed statement. \u201cThe number of cases we\u2019re seeing is still far too high, and it tells us urgent action continues to be required.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US aviation regulators will continue what they call a \u201czero-tolerance\u201d policy against passengers who refuse to wear face masks on airline flights. The Federal Aviation Administration in January announced it was being more aggressive about enforcing existing federal laws that require passengers to follow the crew\u2019s safety instructions, but the policy expired at the end of March. \u201cThe policy directs our safety inspectors and attorneys to take strong enforcement action against any passenger who disrupts or threatens the safety of a flight, with penalties ranging from fines to jail time,\u201d FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said in an emailed statement. \u201cThe [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405165","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=405165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}