{"id":494572,"date":"2022-05-30T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494572"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:18:01","slug":"dgca-imposes-%e2%82%b95-lakh-fine-on-indigo-for-denying-boarding-to-special-needs-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-imposes-%e2%82%b95-lakh-fine-on-indigo-for-denying-boarding-to-special-needs-child\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA imposes \u20b95 lakh fine on IndiGo for denying boarding to special needs child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday imposed a penalty of \u20b9 5 lakh on India\u2019s largest airline, IndiGo, after a special child along with his parents were denied boarding at Ranchi Airport on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>DGCA said that special situations deserve extraordinary responses but the airline staff failed to rise up to the occasion and in the process committed lapses in adherence to the letter and spirit of the Civil Aviation Requirements (Regulations).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of this, the competent authority in DGCA has decided to impose a penalty of Rs. Five Lakhs on the airline under the provisions of the relevant Aircraft Rules,\u201d said Arun Kumar, director general of DGCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday imposed a penalty of \u20b9 5 lakh on India\u2019s largest airline, IndiGo, after a special child along with his parents were denied boarding at Ranchi Airport on May 7. DGCA said that special situations deserve extraordinary responses but the airline staff failed to rise up to the occasion and in the process committed lapses in adherence to the letter and spirit of the Civil Aviation Requirements (Regulations). \u201cIn view of this, the competent authority in DGCA has decided to impose a penalty of Rs. Five Lakhs on the airline [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494572","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\/494572","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=494572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}