{"id":493511,"date":"2022-05-25T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493511"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:02:37","slug":"airlines-warned-against-selling-damaged-seats-says-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-warned-against-selling-damaged-seats-says-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines warned against selling damaged seats, says DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines have been barred from selling \u201cunserviceable\u201d, or damaged, seats to passengers, civil aviation regulator DGCA has said, warning that strict action will be taken against carriers if they continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In a communique sent to all Indian carriers on Tuesday, the DGCA said some airlines were offering unserviceable seats to passengers on their scheduled international and domestic flights. \u201cThis practice is not only causing inconvenience to the travellers but also inviting a serious safety concern as well,\u201d the regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA recently conducted an audit of seats and other cabin fittings in aircraft and found that many had broken or unserviceable seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines have been barred from selling \u201cunserviceable\u201d, or damaged, seats to passengers, civil aviation regulator DGCA has said, warning that strict action will be taken against carriers if they continue to do so. In a communique sent to all Indian carriers on Tuesday, the DGCA said some airlines were offering unserviceable seats to passengers on their scheduled international and domestic flights. \u201cThis practice is not only causing inconvenience to the travellers but also inviting a serious safety concern as well,\u201d the regulator said. The DGCA recently conducted an audit of seats and other cabin fittings in aircraft and found that [&hellip;]<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493511","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=493511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}