{"id":345005,"date":"2020-04-03T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345005"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:18:38","slug":"easing-supply-blues-airlines-get-approval-to-carry-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/easing-supply-blues-airlines-get-approval-to-carry-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing supply blues: Airlines get approval to carry goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an attempt to normalise cargo movement across the country, the government has allowed airlines, including private carriers, to carry goods in their aircraft. This will not only ensure supplies to the general public but also help the government ferry essential medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate airlines are carrying essential medical cargo gratis, and will continue to do so,\u201d said aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola added that the new order by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) allows airlines to carry other non-essential cargo, too. \u201cThey can carry cargo of other companies for a fee with this order and they will continue to carry our medical cargo for free,\u201d Kharola added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an attempt to normalise cargo movement across the country, the government has allowed airlines, including private carriers, to carry goods in their aircraft. This will not only ensure supplies to the general public but also help the government ferry essential medical equipment. \u201cPrivate airlines are carrying essential medical cargo gratis, and will continue to do so,\u201d said aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Aviation secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola added that the new order by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) allows airlines to carry other non-essential cargo, too. \u201cThey can carry cargo of other companies for a [&hellip;]<\/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-345005","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\/345005","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=345005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}