{"id":659431,"date":"2026-03-18T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659431"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:39:52","slug":"at-least-60-seats-should-be-given-without-charge-flyers-of-same-pnr-should-be-seated-together-dgca-to-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/at-least-60-seats-should-be-given-without-charge-flyers-of-same-pnr-should-be-seated-together-dgca-to-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At least 60% seats should be given without charge; flyers of same PNR should be seated together:\u2019 DGCA to airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Airlines will now have to offer at least 60% seats \u201con any flight\u201d without any selection charge and passengers travelling on the same PNR \u2014 who are usually family members or the travelling in a group \u2014 will need to be seated together, \u201cpreferably on adjacent seats,\u201d The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Wednesday issued these passenger-friendly directives, in a bid to address one of the biggest grouses of air travellers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, airlines have been asked to make available \u201cminimum 60% of seats on any flight to be allocated free of charge to ensure fair access\u201d and that \u201cpassengers travelling on the same PNR to be seated together, preferably on adjacent seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Airlines will now have to offer at least 60% seats \u201con any flight\u201d without any selection charge and passengers travelling on the same PNR \u2014 who are usually family members or the travelling in a group \u2014 will need to be seated together, \u201cpreferably on adjacent seats,\u201d The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Wednesday issued these passenger-friendly directives, in a bid to address one of the biggest grouses of air travellers. Now, airlines have been asked to make available \u201cminimum 60% of seats on any flight to be allocated free of charge to ensure fair access\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/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-659431","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\/659431","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=659431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}