{"id":265425,"date":"2019-03-22T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=265425"},"modified":"2019-03-22T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:05:08","slug":"domestic-air-passenger-growth-dips-to-53-month-low-at-5-6-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-air-passenger-growth-dips-to-53-month-low-at-5-6-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic air passenger growth dips to 53-month low at 5.6% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic air passenger growth has lost the high double-digit momentum with a growth of 5.62 percent in February&#8211;which is a 53-month low&#8211;with the airlines flying 11.34 million passengers compared to 10.74 million, according to the DGCA data released Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The last time such a low growth was reported in July 2014 when incremental traffic grew 7.19 percent, while in August 2014 the same was at 8 percent. Since September 2014 the market has been clipping at double-digits which lasted till December 2018. Come January 2019, the growth rate slipped to 9.1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Significantly, almost all major carriers operated a truncated schedule, mostly led by the crippled Jet Airways and budget carrier Indigo which had to cancel hundreds of flights in the month due to a host of reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic air passenger growth has lost the high double-digit momentum with a growth of 5.62 percent in February&#8211;which is a 53-month low&#8211;with the airlines flying 11.34 million passengers compared to 10.74 million, according to the DGCA data released Wednesday. The last time such a low growth was reported in July 2014 when incremental traffic grew 7.19 percent, while in August 2014 the same was at 8 percent. Since September 2014 the market has been clipping at double-digits which lasted till December 2018. Come January 2019, the growth rate slipped to 9.1 percent. Significantly, almost all major carriers operated a truncated [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265425","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=265425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}