{"id":309404,"date":"2020-01-08T11:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309404"},"modified":"2020-01-08T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:09:31","slug":"air-india-assures-travel-agents-it-isnt-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-assures-travel-agents-it-isnt-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India assures travel agents it isn&#8217;t shutting down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has written to its travel agents assuring them the airline won\u2019t be shut down, a day after its chairman posted a tweet of similar assurance.<\/p>\n<p>The reactions follow a visit by aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri to the national carrier\u2019s employee unions wherein he made a case for urgent privatisation as the only way forward as fears of a shutdown loom large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;these rumours and baseless and without an iota of truth,\u201d Meenakshi Mallik, director commercial at the state-run carrier wrote in the letter to agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has written to its travel agents assuring them the airline won\u2019t be shut down, a day after its chairman posted a tweet of similar assurance. The reactions follow a visit by aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri to the national carrier\u2019s employee unions wherein he made a case for urgent privatisation as the only way forward as fears of a shutdown loom large. \u201c&#8230;these rumours and baseless and without an iota of truth,\u201d Meenakshi Mallik, director commercial at the state-run carrier wrote in the letter to agents.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309404","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\/309404","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=309404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}