{"id":508423,"date":"2022-07-25T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508423"},"modified":"2022-07-25T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:29:30","slug":"airlines-cant-deny-boarding-over-disability-need-medical-opinion-dgca-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-cant-deny-boarding-over-disability-need-medical-opinion-dgca-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines can\u2019t deny boarding over \u2018disability\u2019, need medical opinion: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATING THAT airlines cannot deny boarding to \u201cany person on the basis of disability\u201d, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said that if an airline feels the passenger\u2019s health is likely to deteriorate during the flight, it must consult a doctor at the airport and then take an \u201cappropriate decision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the DGCA said it has amended its regulations to improve accessibility of boarding and flying for the specially-abled. The move, which was originally proposed on June 3, comes in the backdrop of the incident at the Ranchi airport in May, when IndiGo did not allow a specially-abled child to board its Hyderabad-bound flight, citing potential threat to air safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATING THAT airlines cannot deny boarding to \u201cany person on the basis of disability\u201d, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said that if an airline feels the passenger\u2019s health is likely to deteriorate during the flight, it must consult a doctor at the airport and then take an \u201cappropriate decision\u201d. In a statement on Friday, the DGCA said it has amended its regulations to improve accessibility of boarding and flying for the specially-abled. The move, which was originally proposed on June 3, comes in the backdrop of the incident at the Ranchi airport in May, when IndiGo did [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508423","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=508423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}