{"id":650938,"date":"2025-11-01T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650938"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:13:28","slug":"pak-detour-cited-on-duty-hours-as-dgca-backs-air-india-dreamliner-flight-time-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pak-detour-cited-on-duty-hours-as-dgca-backs-air-india-dreamliner-flight-time-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak detour cited on duty hours as DGCA backs Air India Dreamliner flight-time extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has defended its decision to extend the duty time for two-pilot Boeing 787 Dreamliner operations of Air India, citing longer flight paths to European countries following the closure of Pakistan&#8217;s airspace. <\/p>\n<p>The aviation watchdog&#8217;s clarification came in response to a letter written by the Airlines Pilots&#8217; Association of India (ALPA India) seeking to withdraw the flight duty time extension for two-pilot Boeing 787 Dreamliner operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has defended its decision to extend the duty time for two-pilot Boeing 787 Dreamliner operations of Air India, citing longer flight paths to European countries following the closure of Pakistan&#8217;s airspace. The aviation watchdog&#8217;s clarification came in response to a letter written by the Airlines Pilots&#8217; Association of India (ALPA India) seeking to withdraw the flight duty time extension for two-pilot Boeing 787 Dreamliner operations.<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650938","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=650938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}