{"id":262306,"date":"2019-03-05T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262306"},"modified":"2019-03-05T05:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T05:47:54","slug":"flight-cancellations-drive-fares-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-cancellations-drive-fares-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight cancellations drive fares north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Airfares are surging as two of India\u2019s biggest carriers have been forced to cancel up to 150 flights daily. Jet AirwaysNSE -0.98 %, struggling to remain afloat, has been cancelling about 100 flights a day to conserve finances and cope with planes being grounded because lease payments haven&#8217;t been made. The country\u2019s largest carrier IndiGoNSE 1.68 % finds itself short of pilots to fly its swelling fleet. <\/p>\n<p>Fares have climbed as much as 60%, especially to destinations such as Chennai and Kolkata and some smaller towns, said three people with knowledge of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overall fare table in the domestic market has increased significantly over the past few weeks with last-minute fares on key routes being the most impacted,\u201d said Sharat Dhall, chief operating officer, B2C, at Yatra.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Airfares are surging as two of India\u2019s biggest carriers have been forced to cancel up to 150 flights daily. Jet AirwaysNSE -0.98 %, struggling to remain afloat, has been cancelling about 100 flights a day to conserve finances and cope with planes being grounded because lease payments haven&#8217;t been made. The country\u2019s largest carrier IndiGoNSE 1.68 % finds itself short of pilots to fly its swelling fleet. Fares have climbed as much as 60%, especially to destinations such as Chennai and Kolkata and some smaller towns, said three people with knowledge of the matter. \u201cThe overall fare table in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262306","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}