{"id":655285,"date":"2025-12-05T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655285"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:32:03","slug":"indigo-arm-twisting-regulator-on-fdtl-norms-alleges-pilots-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-arm-twisting-regulator-on-fdtl-norms-alleges-pilots-association\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo \u2018arm-twisting\u2019 regulator on FDTL norms, alleges pilots\u2019 association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Airline Pilots\u2019 Association of India (ALPA), in a press statement, said that IndiGo\u2019s flight cancellations could be a pressure tactic to weaken Flight Duty Time Limit (FDTL) norms. The association urged the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to factor in pilot availability when approving airline schedules under the Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) norms. The statement came after IndiGo cancelled over 150 flights and delayed several others, leaving passengers stranded at major airports, including Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Pune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airline Pilots\u2019 Association of India (ALPA), in a press statement, said that IndiGo\u2019s flight cancellations could be a pressure tactic to weaken Flight Duty Time Limit (FDTL) norms. The association urged the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to factor in pilot availability when approving airline schedules under the Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) norms. The statement came after IndiGo cancelled over 150 flights and delayed several others, leaving passengers stranded at major airports, including Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Pune.<\/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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655285","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=655285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}