Weeks after a specially abled child was not allowed to board an IndiGo flight, and days after aviation watchdog imposed a \u20b95 lakh fine for the airline\u2019s deficient handling of the passenger, the regulator issued new orders making it illegal for airlines to deny boarding to any person with a disability.<\/p>\n
The move, a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said, is to ensure that people with special needs are not misconstrued by airlines as behaving in an \u201cunruly\u201d manner \u2014 a classification that allows them to offload passengers who could be deemed as disrupting the flight\u2019s service according to the civil aviation requirement (CAR) rules issued in 2017.<\/p>\n
The DGCA notification amends CAR\u2019s section 3, series M, part I, which now states: \u201c Airline 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. After obtaining the medical opinion, the Airline shall take the appropriate call.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Weeks after a specially abled child was not allowed to board an IndiGo flight, and days after aviation watchdog imposed a \u20b95 lakh fine for the airline\u2019s deficient handling of the passenger, the regulator issued new orders making it illegal for airlines to deny boarding to any person with a disability. The move, a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said, is to ensure that people with special needs are not misconstrued by airlines as behaving in an \u201cunruly\u201d manner \u2014 a classification that allows them to offload passengers who could be deemed as disrupting the flight\u2019s service […]<\/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-496189","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\/496189","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=496189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}