{"id":496049,"date":"2022-06-04T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T03:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=496049"},"modified":"2022-06-04T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T04:08:45","slug":"dgca-urges-doctors-advice-before-denying-boarding-to-special-needs-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-urges-doctors-advice-before-denying-boarding-to-special-needs-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA urges doctor&#8217;s advice before denying boarding to special-needs flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has proposed to make it mandatory for airlines to consult an airport doctor before denying boarding to a passenger with special needs.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator\u2019s move comes weeks after an incident at Ranchi Airport where India\u2019s largest airline, IndiGo, refused to let a disabled teenager board its aircraft. DGCA had slapped a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on IndiGo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirline shall not refuse carriage of any person on the basis of disability. However, in case an airline perceives that the health of such a passenger may deteriorate in flight, the said passenger will have to be examined by a doctor, who shall categorically state the medical condition and whether the passenger is fit to fly or not,\u201d the aviation regulator said in a draft proposal,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has proposed to make it mandatory for airlines to consult an airport doctor before denying boarding to a passenger with special needs. The regulator\u2019s move comes weeks after an incident at Ranchi Airport where India\u2019s largest airline, IndiGo, refused to let a disabled teenager board its aircraft. DGCA had slapped a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on IndiGo. \u201cAirline shall not refuse carriage of any person on the basis of disability. However, in case an airline perceives that the health of such a passenger may deteriorate in flight, the said passenger will have [&hellip;]<\/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-496049","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\/496049","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=496049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}