{"id":341924,"date":"2020-03-16T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341924"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:25:00","slug":"pvt-airports-want-fliers-to-pay-more-as-coronavirus-hurts-their-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pvt-airports-want-fliers-to-pay-more-as-coronavirus-hurts-their-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Pvt airports want fliers to pay more as Coronavirus hurts their profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private airport operators of India have sought the government&#8217;s permission to levy extra charge on fliers, citing losses incurred due to reduced passenger footfall and aircraft movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevenue streams of airports have been impacted adversely against the gloomy background of sharp declines in traffic and passenger throughput. To address the growing severity of this issue and ensure sustainability of airport operators, we propose to levy a nominal facilitation charge as part of airline fares to cover the increased operating cost,\u201d Association of Private Operators said in a communication to the Pardeep Singh Kharola, secretary at Ministry of Civil Aviation. <\/p>\n<p>Private airport operators levy charges on flyers in the form of user development fees, passenger service fees and development fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private airport operators of India have sought the government&#8217;s permission to levy extra charge on fliers, citing losses incurred due to reduced passenger footfall and aircraft movement. \u201cRevenue streams of airports have been impacted adversely against the gloomy background of sharp declines in traffic and passenger throughput. To address the growing severity of this issue and ensure sustainability of airport operators, we propose to levy a nominal facilitation charge as part of airline fares to cover the increased operating cost,\u201d Association of Private Operators said in a communication to the Pardeep Singh Kharola, secretary at Ministry of Civil Aviation. Private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341924","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}