{"id":508286,"date":"2022-07-23T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508286"},"modified":"2022-07-23T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:24:12","slug":"varun-gandhi-says-dgca-needs-to-act-tough-on-repeated-incidents-of-mid-air-snags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/varun-gandhi-says-dgca-needs-to-act-tough-on-repeated-incidents-of-mid-air-snags\/","title":{"rendered":"Varun Gandhi says DGCA needs to act tough on repeated incidents of mid-air snags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP MP Varun Gandhi, who has, in recent days, been openly critical of his party&#8217;s government at the Centre, on Friday said that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) should act tough on repeated incidents of mid-air snags, adding that such incidents are taking place at a time when passengers are already facing inconvenience due to exorbitantly high airfares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when fares of domestic flights have nearly doubled, we are seeing daily reports of planes being forced to make emergency landing due to technical issues. It is of great concern that just in the last two months, as many as 17 flights were affected,\u201d Gandhi wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDGCA will have to take some strict action\u2026are we waiting for a major tragedy?\u201d the BJP MP from Pilibhit added, urging the aviation regulator to act tough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP MP Varun Gandhi, who has, in recent days, been openly critical of his party&#8217;s government at the Centre, on Friday said that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) should act tough on repeated incidents of mid-air snags, adding that such incidents are taking place at a time when passengers are already facing inconvenience due to exorbitantly high airfares. \u201cAt a time when fares of domestic flights have nearly doubled, we are seeing daily reports of planes being forced to make emergency landing due to technical issues. It is of great concern that just in the last two months, [&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-508286","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\/508286","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=508286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}