{"id":265124,"date":"2019-03-19T07:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=265124"},"modified":"2019-03-19T07:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T07:10:04","slug":"spot-airfares-set-for-summer-surge-dgca-calls-crisis-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spot-airfares-set-for-summer-surge-dgca-calls-crisis-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot airfares set for summer surge, DGCA calls crisis meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Be prepared for high spot airfares these summer holidays. Almost all airlines have reduced flights, even as the demand remains strong. A concerned Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has called a meeting with airlines on the issue on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe supply side crisis has been worsening over time, for a variety of reasons. More than half of Jet\u2019s fleet of 119 planes are grounded and the integrity of its highly truncated schedule is in doubt; SpiceJet has grounded 12 Boeing 737 Max; IndiGo has canceled 30 flights daily till early April due to pilot shortage; GoAir too has also grounded many of its planes for technical reasons and Air India is facing crew shortage as its international flights to the west have started taking a longer route after Pakistan closed airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Be prepared for high spot airfares these summer holidays. Almost all airlines have reduced flights, even as the demand remains strong. A concerned Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has called a meeting with airlines on the issue on Tuesday. The supply side crisis has been worsening over time, for a variety of reasons. More than half of Jet\u2019s fleet of 119 planes are grounded and the integrity of its highly truncated schedule is in doubt; SpiceJet has grounded 12 Boeing 737 Max; IndiGo has canceled 30 flights daily till early April due to pilot shortage; GoAir too [&hellip;]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265124","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=265124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}