{"id":33527,"date":"2015-09-17T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=33527"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:35:33","slug":"thai-airways-explores-feasibility-of-guwahati-thailand-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thai-airways-explores-feasibility-of-guwahati-thailand-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Airways explores feasibility of Guwahati-Thailand flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai Airways International is exploring the possibility of starting a direct flight between Guwahati and Thailand amid growing prospects for business and tourism. <\/p>\n<p>A Thai Airways team is in the country for the second time to study the market in northeast India. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our feasibility study suggests that during the season time \u2014 March to September \u2014 demand is good,&#8221; said Sajid Ahmad Khan, sales executive of Thai Airways. He added that 50 to 100 passengers travel to Thailand from the northeast every month and the number is growing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working out the commercial aspects,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We came here in March last and this is our second trip.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thailand was among the top 10 countries that sent visitors to India using the e-tourist visa facility in April this year, according to the tourism ministry. The Indian government is promoting Buddhism tourist sites, many of which are found in the northeast. <\/p>\n<p>Guwahati airport is the ninth biggest in India in terms of traffic. Guwahati is the largest city in Assam state and is considered the gateway to the northeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai Airways International is exploring the possibility of starting a direct flight between Guwahati and Thailand amid growing prospects for business and tourism. A Thai Airways team is in the country for the second time to study the market in northeast India. &#8220;Our feasibility study suggests that during the season time \u2014 March to September \u2014 demand is good,&#8221; said Sajid Ahmad Khan, sales executive of Thai Airways. He added that 50 to 100 passengers travel to Thailand from the northeast every month and the number is growing. &#8220;We are working out the commercial aspects,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We came here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33527","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}