{"id":294858,"date":"2019-10-03T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294858"},"modified":"2019-10-03T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:21:26","slug":"dgca-sees-passenger-traffic-growing-at-up-to-9-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-sees-passenger-traffic-growing-at-up-to-9-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA sees passenger traffic growing at up to 9% this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Domestic air passenger traffic is expected to clock up high single-digit growth in 2019, benefitting from the induction of aircraft by airlines and an expected rise in air travel during the festival season, a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe air passenger growth is expected to be at high single digit, between 7% and 9% during 2019,&#8221; Arun Kumar, director general of DGCA, said in an interview on Wednesday. Air passenger traffic grew 3.2% between January and August this year, compared to 21.2% in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir passenger growth had slowed down after the grounding of Jet Airways, which also saw the market lose a large chunk of capacity with the grounding of Jet\u2019s aircraft,&#8221; Kumar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Domestic air passenger traffic is expected to clock up high single-digit growth in 2019, benefitting from the induction of aircraft by airlines and an expected rise in air travel during the festival season, a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said. \u201cThe air passenger growth is expected to be at high single digit, between 7% and 9% during 2019,&#8221; Arun Kumar, director general of DGCA, said in an interview on Wednesday. Air passenger traffic grew 3.2% between January and August this year, compared to 21.2% in the same period last year. \u201cAir passenger growth had [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294858","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\/294858","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=294858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}