{"id":280845,"date":"2019-07-08T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280845"},"modified":"2019-07-08T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:34:45","slug":"flights-between-india-europe-to-increase-route-profitability-remains-challenge-air-france-klm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flights-between-india-europe-to-increase-route-profitability-remains-challenge-air-france-klm\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights between India, Europe to increase; route profitability remains challenge: Air France-KLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air France-KLM will increase its passenger-carrying capacity between India and Europe by more than 25 per cent from this winter even as profitability remains one of the biggest challenges for its flights on this route, a senior executive of the airline said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the major challenges in India is the route profitability. From a historical point of view, it has always been a bit of challenge. Our flights are doing well. But the economical performance is always a bit of a concern,&#8221; Welmer Blom, the senior vice-president (Middle East, Gulf and India), Air France-KLM, told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>He said India is a &#8220;strategic&#8221; market for airlines and the conglomerate would be expanding flight connectivity between Europe an India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air France-KLM will increase its passenger-carrying capacity between India and Europe by more than 25 per cent from this winter even as profitability remains one of the biggest challenges for its flights on this route, a senior executive of the airline said. &#8220;One of the major challenges in India is the route profitability. From a historical point of view, it has always been a bit of challenge. Our flights are doing well. But the economical performance is always a bit of a concern,&#8221; Welmer Blom, the senior vice-president (Middle East, Gulf and India), Air France-KLM, told PTI. He said India [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280845","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=280845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}