{"id":453962,"date":"2021-12-03T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=453962"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:33:37","slug":"airasia-india-introduces-in-flight-safety-manual-for-the-visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-india-introduces-in-flight-safety-manual-for-the-visually-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia India introduces in-flight safety manual for the visually impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, AirAsia India on Friday introduced an in-flight safety manual in braille in collaboration with the Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind for the visually impaired passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Also, wheelchair assistance can now be pre-booked online on its website and app while getting a flight ticket, it said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Different types of wheelchair facilities are available to pre-book for persons with disabilities to access the ramp up to the ladder point or the aircraft door as well as to reach the cabin,&#8221; it mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Wheelchairs to assist guests to be seated inside the cabin are narrower, allowing easier manoeuvring in the aisle of the aircraft, the release stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These facilities are provided to guests along with convenient seats at no extra cost,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said it has also demarcated special assistance counters with priority services at all 17 airports it operates from for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, AirAsia India on Friday introduced an in-flight safety manual in braille in collaboration with the Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind for the visually impaired passengers. Also, wheelchair assistance can now be pre-booked online on its website and app while getting a flight ticket, it said in a release. &#8220;Different types of wheelchair facilities are available to pre-book for persons with disabilities to access the ramp up to the ladder point or the aircraft door as well as to reach the cabin,&#8221; it mentioned. Wheelchairs to assist guests to be seated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453962","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}