{"id":272537,"date":"2019-05-02T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272537"},"modified":"2019-05-02T07:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:26:42","slug":"passenger-traffic-up-but-infra-upgrade-yet-to-begin-at-srinagar-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passenger-traffic-up-but-infra-upgrade-yet-to-begin-at-srinagar-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger traffic up but infra upgrade yet to begin at Srinagar airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While passenger traffic at Srinagar airport has registered growth this year, a proposed infrastructure upgrade to accommodate the growing passenger rush is yet to take off. <\/p>\n<p>Airports Authority of India (AAI) data reveal that in 2018-19, Srinagar airport witnessed a 12.2% growth in passenger traffic (domestic and international) followed by Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport, Amritsar (8.8%). <\/p>\n<p>J&amp;K government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted about the recorded growth: \u201cNeed we say more?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The data reveals that in 2018-19, 27.37 lakh passengers travelled through the Srinagar airport for both domestic and international flights, a 12.2%-jump over 2017-18. <\/p>\n<p>To enhance its capacity, the recently-approved Master Plan of Srinagar metropolitan region had pitched for upgrade of infrastructure facilities and night-landing facilities at the airport that is of the preferred tourist destinations in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While passenger traffic at Srinagar airport has registered growth this year, a proposed infrastructure upgrade to accommodate the growing passenger rush is yet to take off. Airports Authority of India (AAI) data reveal that in 2018-19, Srinagar airport witnessed a 12.2% growth in passenger traffic (domestic and international) followed by Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport, Amritsar (8.8%). J&amp;K government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted about the recorded growth: \u201cNeed we say more?\u201d The data reveals that in 2018-19, 27.37 lakh passengers travelled through the Srinagar airport for both domestic and international flights, a 12.2%-jump over 2017-18. To enhance its [&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":[180,147,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-greater-kashmir","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272537","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=272537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}