{"id":491800,"date":"2022-05-17T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=491800"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T05:27:02","slug":"dgca-says-indigo-staff-handled-child-boarding-incident-inappropriately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-says-indigo-staff-handled-child-boarding-incident-inappropriately\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA says IndiGo staff handled child boarding incident inappropriately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA Monday said it has issued a showcause notice to IndiGo after a fact-finding committee found the airline staff prima facie violated regulations in denying boarding to a specially-abled child at the Ranchi airport on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>The airline had on May 9 said the boy was denied boarding as he was &#8220;visibly in panic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As the boy was prohibited from boarding the Ranchi-Hyderabad flight, his parents &#8212; who were accompanying him &#8212; also decided not to enter the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation had constituted a fact-finding committee to probe the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA Monday said it has issued a showcause notice to IndiGo after a fact-finding committee found the airline staff prima facie violated regulations in denying boarding to a specially-abled child at the Ranchi airport on May 7. The airline had on May 9 said the boy was denied boarding as he was &#8220;visibly in panic&#8221;. As the boy was prohibited from boarding the Ranchi-Hyderabad flight, his parents &#8212; who were accompanying him &#8212; also decided not to enter the plane. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation had constituted a fact-finding committee to probe the matter.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491800","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=491800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}