{"id":275815,"date":"2019-05-23T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=275815"},"modified":"2019-05-23T06:30:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T06:30:51","slug":"air-travel-market-contracts-in-april-due-to-capacity-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-travel-market-contracts-in-april-due-to-capacity-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Air travel market contracts in April due to capacity crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After years of double digit growth, India\u2019s air travel market has started contracting in April as the industry grappled with a sharp reduction in capacity owing to various factors, latest data from civil aviation regulator showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic carriers transported 1.1 million passengers in April, 4.5% less than the 1.15 million people they carried in the same month a year ago, as per Directorate General of Civil Aviation. The contraction in air passenger market contrasts sharply against the 18.6% growth in passengers reported in the 2018 calendar year from the year ago period. In the January-April period of 2019, domestic carriers ferried 4.64 million passengers, showing a 2.5% growth from the same time a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After years of double digit growth, India\u2019s air travel market has started contracting in April as the industry grappled with a sharp reduction in capacity owing to various factors, latest data from civil aviation regulator showed on Wednesday. Domestic carriers transported 1.1 million passengers in April, 4.5% less than the 1.15 million people they carried in the same month a year ago, as per Directorate General of Civil Aviation. The contraction in air passenger market contrasts sharply against the 18.6% growth in passengers reported in the 2018 calendar year from the year ago period. In the January-April period [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275815","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\/275815","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=275815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}