{"id":342638,"date":"2020-03-20T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T05:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342638"},"modified":"2020-03-20T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T05:09:37","slug":"centre-weighs-rescue-package-for-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-weighs-rescue-package-for-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre weighs rescue package for airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government is considering a relief package for airlines to help tide over a squeeze in cash flows and severe business disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, said a person familiar with the development, requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The steps being considered include staggered payments for jet fuel to state-run oil marketing companies, as well as for parking and other charges at airports. \u201cThe government is looking into it,&#8221; he said, adding the relief measures could be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) manages 137 airports, while those in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad are run by private consortiums, wherein AAI is a stakeholder. Airlines pay charges for landing, parking and navigation services to airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government is considering a relief package for airlines to help tide over a squeeze in cash flows and severe business disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, said a person familiar with the development, requesting anonymity. The steps being considered include staggered payments for jet fuel to state-run oil marketing companies, as well as for parking and other charges at airports. \u201cThe government is looking into it,&#8221; he said, adding the relief measures could be announced soon. State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) manages 137 airports, while those in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad are run by private consortiums, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342638","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}