{"id":285257,"date":"2019-07-31T05:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T05:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285257"},"modified":"2019-07-31T05:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T05:23:25","slug":"air-travel-turns-more-affordable-as-prices-of-jet-fuel-see-a-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-travel-turns-more-affordable-as-prices-of-jet-fuel-see-a-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Air travel turns more affordable as prices of jet fuel see a decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Cheaper jet fuel made air travel more affordable in July, data from travel websites showed, aided by new flights, last-minute sales and the opening up of the Pakistani airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Average one-way fares during July on domestic trunk routes were up to 40% lower from a year ago, data from online travel portal Ixigo showed, with Mumbai-Hyderabad fares down 39%, Mumbai-Chennai 62% and Mumbai-Bengaluru 33%.<\/p>\n<p>Aloke Bajpai, Ixigo founder and chief executive officer, said average July fares for domestic and international flights were also 40-45% below the fares seen in the June quarter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Cheaper jet fuel made air travel more affordable in July, data from travel websites showed, aided by new flights, last-minute sales and the opening up of the Pakistani airspace. Average one-way fares during July on domestic trunk routes were up to 40% lower from a year ago, data from online travel portal Ixigo showed, with Mumbai-Hyderabad fares down 39%, Mumbai-Chennai 62% and Mumbai-Bengaluru 33%. Aloke Bajpai, Ixigo founder and chief executive officer, said average July fares for domestic and international flights were also 40-45% below the fares seen in the June quarter.<\/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-285257","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\/285257","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=285257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}