{"id":300413,"date":"2019-11-11T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300413"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:24:35","slug":"big-air-connectivity-for-indians-udan-3-0-affordable-flights-connect-70-new-routes-check-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/big-air-connectivity-for-indians-udan-3-0-affordable-flights-connect-70-new-routes-check-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Big air connectivity for Indians! UDAN 3.0 affordable flights connect 70 new routes; check list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCS-UDAN scheme: Big air connectivity boost across India! RCS (regional connectivity scheme)- UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) provides air connectivity to the second tier, three-tier cities and is aimed at making air travel more accessible to the common man. The scheme was first launched in October 2016. The fare for flights for an around 1-hour trip of around 500 km on a fixed-wing aircraft or for 30-minute helicopter trip has been capped at Rs 2,500.<\/p>\n<p>Following the success of RCS-UDAN 1.0 and RCS-UDAN 2.0, the RCS-UDAN 3.0 was launched. The key features of RCS-UDAN 3.0 were the inclusion of tourism routes under UDAN 3 in coordination with the Ministry of Tourism, the inclusion of seaplanes for connecting water aerodromes. Apart from these, a number of routes in the North-East Region under the ambit of UDAN have been brought in under RCS-UDAN 3.0. 235 routes comprising 189 RCS routes and 46 tourism routes would be connected across 29 states in the country under RCS-UDAN 3.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCS-UDAN scheme: Big air connectivity boost across India! RCS (regional connectivity scheme)- UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) provides air connectivity to the second tier, three-tier cities and is aimed at making air travel more accessible to the common man. The scheme was first launched in October 2016. The fare for flights for an around 1-hour trip of around 500 km on a fixed-wing aircraft or for 30-minute helicopter trip has been capped at Rs 2,500. Following the success of RCS-UDAN 1.0 and RCS-UDAN 2.0, the RCS-UDAN 3.0 was launched. The key features of RCS-UDAN 3.0 were the inclusion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-300413","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\/300413","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}