{"id":285968,"date":"2019-08-05T05:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T05:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285968"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:02:16","slug":"airfares-cheaper-than-ac1-ac2-train-fares-says-railway-zone-allows-officials-to-fly-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airfares-cheaper-than-ac1-ac2-train-fares-says-railway-zone-allows-officials-to-fly-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfares &#8220;cheaper&#8221; than AC1, AC2 train fares, says railway zone, allows officials to fly instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contending that airfares to Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata from their centres are &#8220;cheaper&#8221; than AC1 and AC2 train fares, the Hubli, Karnataka headquartered South Western Railway has approved its officials&#8217; request to fly to these destinations instead. <\/p>\n<p>The General Manager, South Western Railway has approved the proposal which states that it would &#8220;increase productivity&#8221; as the travel time between any location in the railway zone to these tier 1 cities is &#8220;more than 12 hours.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one way travel time by train from any location in SWR to Delhi\/Mumbai\/Kolkata is more than 12 hours&#8230;it can be seen that flight fares of private airlines on mostly travelled routes are cheaper than that of 1AC\/2AC train fares,&#8221; the Deputy General Manager of the zone has proposed in a letter to the GM seeking his approval for air-travel for senior officials on July 31. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contending that airfares to Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata from their centres are &#8220;cheaper&#8221; than AC1 and AC2 train fares, the Hubli, Karnataka headquartered South Western Railway has approved its officials&#8217; request to fly to these destinations instead. The General Manager, South Western Railway has approved the proposal which states that it would &#8220;increase productivity&#8221; as the travel time between any location in the railway zone to these tier 1 cities is &#8220;more than 12 hours.&#8221; &#8220;The one way travel time by train from any location in SWR to Delhi\/Mumbai\/Kolkata is more than 12 hours&#8230;it can be seen that flight fares [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285968","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\/285968","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=285968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}