{"id":278303,"date":"2019-06-12T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278303"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:38:30","slug":"indigo-enters-china-to-start-flights-on-delhi-chengdu-route-from-sept-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-enters-china-to-start-flights-on-delhi-chengdu-route-from-sept-15\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo enters China, to start flights on Delhi-Chengdu route from Sept 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing its entry into the Chinese market, low-cost carrier IndiGo Wednesday said it will start its daily non-stop flight on the Delhi-Chengdu route from September 15 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>William Boulter, Chief Commercial Officer, IndiGo said, &#8220;This is truly a milestone moment for all of us at IndiGo. India is witnessing a much higher growth rate with respect to aviation and currently, the India-China route is underserved by Indian carriers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is a market with immense potential and holds prominent trade, cultural and tourism values. We hope to further strengthen this relation by announcing our entry into China,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>While the low-cost carrier is operating on five other international routes in Asia, the new flight from September 15 will make Chengdu the airline&#8217;s 19th international destination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be the first non-stop service between Chengdu and India,&#8221; IndiGo, which is India&#8217;s largest airline with around 50 per cent share in domestic passenger market, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo said that it would be opening the sale of tickets for flights on the Delhi-Chengdu route as soon as it secures &#8220;the requisite regulatory approvals&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing its entry into the Chinese market, low-cost carrier IndiGo Wednesday said it will start its daily non-stop flight on the Delhi-Chengdu route from September 15 onwards. William Boulter, Chief Commercial Officer, IndiGo said, &#8220;This is truly a milestone moment for all of us at IndiGo. India is witnessing a much higher growth rate with respect to aviation and currently, the India-China route is underserved by Indian carriers.&#8221; &#8220;China is a market with immense potential and holds prominent trade, cultural and tourism values. We hope to further strengthen this relation by announcing our entry into China,&#8221; he added. While the [&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":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278303","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=278303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}