{"id":410486,"date":"2021-04-13T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410486"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:24:05","slug":"no-in-flight-meals-on-domestic-flights-under-2-hour-duration-government-orders-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-in-flight-meals-on-domestic-flights-under-2-hour-duration-government-orders-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"No in-flight meals on domestic flights under 2-hour duration, government orders airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government on Monday directed airlines to serve or sell in-flight meals from Thursday (April 15) only on those domestic flights that have a duration of over two hours, in wake of the sharp surge in Covid-19 cases in India.<br \/>\nHowever, there are no restrictions on inflight meals on international flights as of now.<br \/>\nThe decision comes amid fears that passengers taking off masks to eat may lead to spread of the virus. While inflight meals can\u2019t be avoided on medium or long hauls, the restriction has been imposed on domestic flights of up to two-hour duration for now.<br \/>\nCoronavirus: Live updates<br \/>\nA senior aviation ministry official said: \u201cWe had (last year) issued guidelines for in-flight meals and they have worked well. However, as an abundant precaution, additional provisions are being made. For domestic flights, an order is issued to consider in-flight meal when flight duration is two hours or more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government on Monday directed airlines to serve or sell in-flight meals from Thursday (April 15) only on those domestic flights that have a duration of over two hours, in wake of the sharp surge in Covid-19 cases in India. However, there are no restrictions on inflight meals on international flights as of now. The decision comes amid fears that passengers taking off masks to eat may lead to spread of the virus. While inflight meals can\u2019t be avoided on medium or long hauls, the restriction has been imposed on domestic flights of up to two-hour duration for [&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-410486","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\/410486","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=410486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}