{"id":650110,"date":"2025-10-27T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650110"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:13:27","slug":"seats-less-reclining-boeing-787-pilots-want-duty-time-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/seats-less-reclining-boeing-787-pilots-want-duty-time-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Seats less reclining: Boeing 787 pilots want duty time cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian pilots have expressed a fresh concern over the Boeing 787 Dreamliners \u2014 extended flight duty time limitation (FDTL) for them despite the aircraft\u2019s less reclining cockpit seats that make controlled rest less effective for them.<\/p>\n<p>The Airlines Pilots\u2019 Association of India has urged the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to rollback the extension given to the \u201calready stretched\u201d flight duty time limit (FDTL) for Boeing 787 two-man flight crew operations from 10 hours (flying time) to 10.5 hours and 13 hours of flight duty period (FDP) to 14 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian pilots have expressed a fresh concern over the Boeing 787 Dreamliners \u2014 extended flight duty time limitation (FDTL) for them despite the aircraft\u2019s less reclining cockpit seats that make controlled rest less effective for them. The Airlines Pilots\u2019 Association of India has urged the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to rollback the extension given to the \u201calready stretched\u201d flight duty time limit (FDTL) for Boeing 787 two-man flight crew operations from 10 hours (flying time) to 10.5 hours and 13 hours of flight duty period (FDP) to 14 hours.<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650110","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=650110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}