{"id":657294,"date":"2026-01-03T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657294"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:08:23","slug":"air-india-pilot-offloaded-from-flight-in-vancouver-over-alcohol-smell-airline-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pilot-offloaded-from-flight-in-vancouver-over-alcohol-smell-airline-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilot offloaded from flight in Vancouver over \u2018alcohol smell\u2019, airline responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air India pilot was offloaded before take-off in Vancouver on December 23 after Canadian authorities raised concern about \u201cfitness for duty\u201d, the Tata-owned carrier confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident resulted in a delay for passengers on board flight AI186 from Vancouver to Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air India pilot was offloaded before take-off in Vancouver on December 23 after Canadian authorities raised concern about \u201cfitness for duty\u201d, the Tata-owned carrier confirmed on Thursday. The incident resulted in a delay for passengers on board flight AI186 from Vancouver to Delhi.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657294","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=657294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}