{"id":509941,"date":"2026-04-03T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:35:10","slug":"govt-steps-back-on-free-seat-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509941\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt Steps Back On Free Seat Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\">\n<p>\t Article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulte.com\/author\/satya\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Satya <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tPublished on: 10:41 pm, 2 April 2026 \t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/airlines-free-seats-290434183-16x9_0.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The government has put on hold its decision to offer 60 percent seats free on flights. After strong opposition from airlines, the order has been suspended for now. A final decision will be taken after review. Until then, passengers will continue to pay for seat selection as earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article by Satya Published on: 10:41 pm, 2 April 2026 The government has put on hold its decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-509941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}