{"id":274618,"date":"2019-05-16T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274618"},"modified":"2019-05-16T05:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T05:04:08","slug":"as-air-fares-rise-in-summer-qatar-airways-asks-india-to-allow-additional-flights-to-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-air-fares-rise-in-summer-qatar-airways-asks-india-to-allow-additional-flights-to-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"As air fares rise in summer, Qatar Airways asks India to allow additional flights to Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As summer air fares rise on high-volume routes connecting major Indian cities with Doha, Qatar Airways on Wednesday said it has asked Indian aviation authorities to permit additional flights on such routes on temporary basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our contingency plan is designed to make an additional number of seats available on certain high volume routes (Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore), but only a temporary basis and without formal changes to the current weekly seat capacity entitlement established under the 2009 Qatar-India bilateral aviation framework,&#8221; said the airline.<\/p>\n<p>With Jet Airways shutting down its operations on April 17, there has been sudden reduction in the number of flights connecting Indian cities with Qatar&#8217;s capital Doha. Consequently, the air fares for the peak summer season have shot up on these routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As summer air fares rise on high-volume routes connecting major Indian cities with Doha, Qatar Airways on Wednesday said it has asked Indian aviation authorities to permit additional flights on such routes on temporary basis. &#8220;Our contingency plan is designed to make an additional number of seats available on certain high volume routes (Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore), but only a temporary basis and without formal changes to the current weekly seat capacity entitlement established under the 2009 Qatar-India bilateral aviation framework,&#8221; said the airline. With Jet Airways shutting down its operations on April 17, there has been sudden [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274618","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=274618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}