{"id":659814,"date":"2026-04-04T11:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659814"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:37:57","slug":"explained-why-the-government-rolled-back-its-60-free-flight-seat-allocation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explained-why-the-government-rolled-back-its-60-free-flight-seat-allocation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained \u2014 Why the government rolled back its 60% free flight seat allocation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Thursday said it was putting in abeyance an order directing airlines to offer at least 60% of flight seats free of charge from 20 April, PTI reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 18 March order from the civil aviation ministry had directed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ensure airlines allocated a minimum of 60% of seats for selection on any flight, free of any additional charges, to ensure fair access for passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Thursday said it was putting in abeyance an order directing airlines to offer at least 60% of flight seats free of charge from 20 April, PTI reported. The 18 March order from the civil aviation ministry had directed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ensure airlines allocated a minimum of 60% of seats for selection on any flight, free of any additional charges, 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-659814","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\/659814","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=659814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}