{"id":659860,"date":"2026-04-04T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659860"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:06:29","slug":"airlines-cannot-bypass-weekly-rest-for-pilots-dgca-tells-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-cannot-bypass-weekly-rest-for-pilots-dgca-tells-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines cannot bypass weekly rest for pilots, DGCA tells HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has informed the Delhi high court that its decision permitting airlines to count a pilot\u2019s 48-hour earned leave as weekly rest while rostering them does not give airlines a free hand to bypass or suspend the mandatory weekly rest requirements under the revised FDTL norms.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA on December 5 last year had withdrawn an earlier rule issued in November 2025 that prevented airlines from counting pilot leave as weekly rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has informed the Delhi high court that its decision permitting airlines to count a pilot\u2019s 48-hour earned leave as weekly rest while rostering them does not give airlines a free hand to bypass or suspend the mandatory weekly rest requirements under the revised FDTL norms. The DGCA on December 5 last year had withdrawn an earlier rule issued in November 2025 that prevented airlines from counting pilot leave as weekly rest.<\/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-659860","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\/659860","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=659860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}