{"id":504652,"date":"2022-07-11T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504652"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T07:23:18","slug":"technical-malfunctions-fliers-starting-to-shun-spicejet-over-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/technical-malfunctions-fliers-starting-to-shun-spicejet-over-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical malfunctions: Fliers starting to shun SpiceJet over safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With as many as eight technical malfunction incidents involving SpiceJet planes reported over the past three weeks, a significant number of domestic fliers are avoiding the airline over safety concerns, a new survey conducted by community social media platform LocalCircles has found.<\/p>\n<p>On the question of whether the fliers were avoiding any particular airline due to safety concerns, 44% of those travelling on domestic routes said that they were keeping away from SpiceJet flights, while 21% selected Air India and IndiGo, 18% Go First, 12% AirAsia and 6% Vistara. The respondents were given the option of choosing more than one airline for this particular query, which garnered 16,128 responses.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday issued a show-cause notice to SpiceJet over the technical snags, flagging safety oversight, inadequate maintenance and payment-related shortage of spares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With as many as eight technical malfunction incidents involving SpiceJet planes reported over the past three weeks, a significant number of domestic fliers are avoiding the airline over safety concerns, a new survey conducted by community social media platform LocalCircles has found. On the question of whether the fliers were avoiding any particular airline due to safety concerns, 44% of those travelling on domestic routes said that they were keeping away from SpiceJet flights, while 21% selected Air India and IndiGo, 18% Go First, 12% AirAsia and 6% Vistara. The respondents were given the option of choosing more than one [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504652","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=504652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}