{"id":346044,"date":"2020-04-09T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346044"},"modified":"2020-04-09T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:10:35","slug":"flight-curbs-will-be-lifted-once-covid-19-is-under-control-says-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-curbs-will-be-lifted-once-covid-19-is-under-control-says-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight curbs will be lifted once Covid-19 is under control, says Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will allow domestic and international commercial passenger flights when it&#8217;s sure that the spread of coronavirus has come under control, sad Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart goes out to people who are facing problems due to restrictions put in place on domestic &amp; international flights, pursuant to the situation arising out of the timely announcement of a nationwide lockdown,&#8221; the minister said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>India has imposed a 21-day lockdown from March 25 to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Consequently, all domestic and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended for this time period.<\/p>\n<p>However, cargo flights, offshore helicopter operations, medical evacuation flights and special flights permitted by Indian aviation regulator DGCA are permitted to operate during this lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will allow domestic and international commercial passenger flights when it&#8217;s sure that the spread of coronavirus has come under control, sad Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday. &#8220;My heart goes out to people who are facing problems due to restrictions put in place on domestic &amp; international flights, pursuant to the situation arising out of the timely announcement of a nationwide lockdown,&#8221; the minister said on Twitter. India has imposed a 21-day lockdown from March 25 to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Consequently, all domestic and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended for this time period. However, [&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-346044","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\/346044","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=346044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}