{"id":342176,"date":"2020-03-17T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T05:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342176"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:23:17","slug":"coronavirus-impact-global-airports-body-asks-india-to-trim-airport-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-impact-global-airports-body-asks-india-to-trim-airport-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus impact: Global airports body asks India to trim airport taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Airport Council International (ACI), which represents 113 airport operators managing 602 airports in 49 countries of the Asia-Pacific and West Asia, has asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to reduce airport taxes on a per passenger basis. It has also asked the Ministry to consider waiving, on a case-by-case basis, the concession fees that the private airport operator has to pay <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, the ACI said the Asia-Pacific has been impacted the most by the Covid-19 outbreak, with 2020 first-quarter passenger traffic volumes 24 per cent below forecast. <\/p>\n<p>Within the Asia-Pacific region, mainland China, Korea and Hong Kong remain the most hit, with sizeable losses in traffic volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airport Council International (ACI), which represents 113 airport operators managing 602 airports in 49 countries of the Asia-Pacific and West Asia, has asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to reduce airport taxes on a per passenger basis. It has also asked the Ministry to consider waiving, on a case-by-case basis, the concession fees that the private airport operator has to pay In a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, the ACI said the Asia-Pacific has been impacted the most by the Covid-19 outbreak, with 2020 first-quarter passenger traffic volumes 24 per cent below forecast. Within the Asia-Pacific region, [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342176","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=342176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}