{"id":331651,"date":"2020-01-31T10:40:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=331651"},"modified":"2020-01-31T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:10:29","slug":"sustainable-fares-needed-to-ensure-viability-of-airlines-hardeep-singh-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sustainable-fares-needed-to-ensure-viability-of-airlines-hardeep-singh-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable fares needed to ensure viability of airlines: Hardeep Singh Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri called for sustainable and rational airfares that would ensure viability of the sector, while adding that it was a free market and the government has no plan to regulate ticket pricing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know the fares between Delhi and Mumbai are lower than what they used to be 20 years ago. Average fares used be Rs 5,100 but it\u2019s Rs 4,600 today. Clearly, something is wrong here. It should also be our responsibility to ensure viability of the airlines,\u201d Puri told ET in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri called for sustainable and rational airfares that would ensure viability of the sector, while adding that it was a free market and the government has no plan to regulate ticket pricing. \u201cYou know the fares between Delhi and Mumbai are lower than what they used to be 20 years ago. Average fares used be Rs 5,100 but it\u2019s Rs 4,600 today. Clearly, something is wrong here. It should also be our responsibility to ensure viability of the airlines,\u201d Puri told ET in an interview.<\/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-331651","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\/331651","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=331651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}