{"id":430283,"date":"2021-08-12T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430283"},"modified":"2021-08-12T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T05:17:05","slug":"india-uae-flights-why-passengers-have-to-reach-airport-5-6-hours-before-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-uae-flights-why-passengers-have-to-reach-airport-5-6-hours-before-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"India-UAE flights: Why passengers have to reach airport 5-6 hours before departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India-UAE flights have resumed from August 7 under specific guidelines, airlines have started issuing directives for the passengers. Air India&#8217;s subsidiary Air India Express on Wednesday issued guidelines asking passengers to reach the airports six hours in advance. A similar directive was issued by IndiGo earlier. <\/p>\n<p>The UAE has mandated a negative PCR test of every passenger conducted not more than four hours before the flight. Because of this time stipulation, the tests have to be done at the source airports. &#8220;The teat counters will start 4 hours before the departure time and would close 2 hours prior to departure,&#8221; the Air India Express said, asking flyers to reach the airports at least six hours prior to the scheduled departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As India-UAE flights have resumed from August 7 under specific guidelines, airlines have started issuing directives for the passengers. Air India&#8217;s subsidiary Air India Express on Wednesday issued guidelines asking passengers to reach the airports six hours in advance. A similar directive was issued by IndiGo earlier. The UAE has mandated a negative PCR test of every passenger conducted not more than four hours before the flight. Because of this time stipulation, the tests have to be done at the source airports. &#8220;The teat counters will start 4 hours before the departure time and would close 2 hours prior 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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430283","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\/430283","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=430283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}