{"id":496048,"date":"2022-06-04T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T03:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=496048"},"modified":"2022-06-04T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T04:08:50","slug":"airlines-cannot-refuse-to-fly-people-with-disability-aviation-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-cannot-refuse-to-fly-people-with-disability-aviation-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines cannot refuse to fly people with disability: Aviation regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines &#8220;shall not&#8221; refuse to fly a person with disability and take a doctor\u2019s opinion, said India\u2019s aviation on Friday in amended rules issued almost a week after it fined low-cost carrier IndiGo Rs 5 lakh for not allowing a boy with special needs to board a flight from Ranchi.<\/p>\n<p>An airline that regards a specially abled passenger&#8217;s health must consult a doctor at the airport and take an &#8220;appropriate call&#8221; on boarding, said on Friday the draft rules issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines &#8220;shall not&#8221; refuse to fly a person with disability and take a doctor\u2019s opinion, said India\u2019s aviation on Friday in amended rules issued almost a week after it fined low-cost carrier IndiGo Rs 5 lakh for not allowing a boy with special needs to board a flight from Ranchi. An airline that regards a specially abled passenger&#8217;s health must consult a doctor at the airport and take an &#8220;appropriate call&#8221; on boarding, said on Friday the draft rules issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).<\/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-496048","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\/496048","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=496048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}