Off-duty airline staff can travel in jump seats

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has now allowed off-duty pilots to enter and travel in the cockpit on the jump seat (additional seat behind where the pilots), relaxing its earlier ban on entry into cockpit by anyone except airline crew rostered to operate that flight. The regulator’s amendment, which pilots say will enhance safety, now allows crew members, officials of that airline and met office to travel on the jump seat.

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