{"id":297661,"date":"2019-10-23T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297661"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:22:49","slug":"a-quarter-of-urban-indians-planning-to-ditch-air-travel-safety-not-concern-this-is-the-real-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-quarter-of-urban-indians-planning-to-ditch-air-travel-safety-not-concern-this-is-the-real-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"A quarter of urban Indians planning to ditch air travel; safety not concern, this is the real reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-fourth of urban Indians are willing to sacrifice comfort for the sake of the planet and said that they are ready to ditch air travel for a lower carbon footprint alternative. With climate change talks heating up, environmental well-wishers have already been lobbying against air travel due to high levels of carbon emissions. However, about 1 in 4 of the urban Indians \u201care willing to take a lower carbon footprint alternative to air travel, even at the cost of inconvenience and additional expense,\u201d a joint study by the World Economic Forum-Ipsos on Air Travel &amp; its Environmental Impact, said last week. \u201c37% Indians, on the other hand, would take the transport with lower carbon footprint (e.g. Rail), if it\u2019s at par with air travel, both in the convenience and price,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian flyers also seem to have a high trust level in the domestic commercial airlines and believe that the carriers are sincere in their commitment towards reducing the impact of aeroplanes on the environment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-fourth of urban Indians are willing to sacrifice comfort for the sake of the planet and said that they are ready to ditch air travel for a lower carbon footprint alternative. With climate change talks heating up, environmental well-wishers have already been lobbying against air travel due to high levels of carbon emissions. However, about 1 in 4 of the urban Indians \u201care willing to take a lower carbon footprint alternative to air travel, even at the cost of inconvenience and additional expense,\u201d a joint study by the World Economic Forum-Ipsos on Air Travel &amp; its Environmental Impact, said [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297661","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=297661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}