{"id":438868,"date":"2021-09-28T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438868"},"modified":"2021-09-28T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T08:03:24","slug":"dope-tests-on-flight-crew-from-2022-for-fliers-safety-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dope-tests-on-flight-crew-from-2022-for-fliers-safety-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"Dope tests on flight crew from 2022 for fliers\u2019 safety: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure safety and security of air passengers, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday issued guidelines under which pilots, cabin crew, maintenance staff and air traffic controllers would face dope tests on a random basis.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA has asked all scheduled commercial aircraft operators to carryout, random drug testing on flight crew members and Air traffic controllers. The rules will be effective from January 31, 2022. This is the first time that DGCA has come out for such random testing of flying and ground staff crews.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DGCA,  the rules will be applicable to aircraft operators engaged in commercial operations, Maintenance &amp; Repair Organizations, Flying Training Organizations and Air Navigation Service Providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure safety and security of air passengers, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday issued guidelines under which pilots, cabin crew, maintenance staff and air traffic controllers would face dope tests on a random basis. The DGCA has asked all scheduled commercial aircraft operators to carryout, random drug testing on flight crew members and Air traffic controllers. The rules will be effective from January 31, 2022. This is the first time that DGCA has come out for such random testing of flying and ground staff crews. According to the DGCA, the rules will be applicable to aircraft [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438868","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=438868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}