NEW DELHI: Passengers flying from \u201cat risk\u201d countries into six metro airports will mandatorily need to pre-book their mandatory on-arrival RT-PCR test from the midnight of December 19-20.
\nThe aviation ministry\u2019s order to the effect issued Tuesday says \u201cfirst phase\u201d will be implemented at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai airports.
\nAccordingly, the government has asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to advise airlines to check before boarding whether international passengers from at risk countries headed to these six metro have pre-booked their test.
\n\u201cIn case any passenger is having any difficulty in pre-booking, they may not be denied boarding. But it would the airline\u2019s responsibility to identify and accompany such passengers to the registration counter at (arrival) airport for testing,\u201d the aviation ministry order issued by its joint secretary Usha Padhee says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Passengers flying from \u201cat risk\u201d countries into six metro airports will mandatorily need to pre-book their mandatory on-arrival RT-PCR test from the midnight of December 19-20. The aviation ministry\u2019s order to the effect issued Tuesday says \u201cfirst phase\u201d will be implemented at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai airports. Accordingly, the government has asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to advise airlines to check before boarding whether international passengers from at risk countries headed to these six metro have pre-booked their test. \u201cIn case any passenger is having any difficulty in pre-booking, they may not […]<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456128","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\/456128","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=456128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}