{"id":650116,"date":"2025-10-27T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650116"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:15:12","slug":"airline-fined-for-denying-travel-over-single-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airline-fined-for-denying-travel-over-single-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline fined for denying travel over \u2018single name\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Can a missing surname keep someone from flying? It did for former Tamil Nadu MLA Nizamudeen, who was stopped from boarding a Gulf Air flight at Moscow airport because his passport had only one name.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, Nizamudeen, who is a practising advocate and former legislator, was due to attend a meeting in Dubai on Feb 10, 2023. Despite holding a valid UAE visa under the same single-name passport, he was not allowed to board a flight to Bahrain, which was to connect him to Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Can a missing surname keep someone from flying? It did for former Tamil Nadu MLA Nizamudeen, who was stopped from boarding a Gulf Air flight at Moscow airport because his passport had only one name. According to the complaint, Nizamudeen, who is a practising advocate and former legislator, was due to attend a meeting in Dubai on Feb 10, 2023. Despite holding a valid UAE visa under the same single-name passport, he was not allowed to board a flight to Bahrain, which was to connect him to Dubai.<\/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-650116","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\/650116","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=650116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}