{"id":659687,"date":"2026-03-30T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659687"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:03:30","slug":"airlines-to-allot-60-of-seats-in-flights-without-additional-charges-from-20-april-says-dgca-fia-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-to-allot-60-of-seats-in-flights-without-additional-charges-from-20-april-says-dgca-fia-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines to allot 60% of seats in flights without additional charges from 20 April, says DGCA; FIA objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) recently announced that, from 20 April, airlines must offer at least 60% of seats on a flight without levying any additional fee and maintain a transparent seat allocation policy.<\/p>\n<p>According to a PTI report, the civil aviation ministry, on 18 March, announced that it had issued directions to the aviation watchdog, asking airlines to allocate at least 60% of seats for selection on any flight free of charge, a move to ensure fair access for passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) recently announced that, from 20 April, airlines must offer at least 60% of seats on a flight without levying any additional fee and maintain a transparent seat allocation policy. According to a PTI report, the civil aviation ministry, on 18 March, announced that it had issued directions to the aviation watchdog, asking airlines to allocate at least 60% of seats for selection on any flight free of charge, a move to ensure fair access for passengers.<\/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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659687","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=659687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}