{"id":347399,"date":"2020-04-20T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347399"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:16:40","slug":"after-aviation-ministers-advice-air-india-stops-bookings-on-all-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-aviation-ministers-advice-air-india-stops-bookings-on-all-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"After aviation minister&#8217;s &#8216;advice&#8217;, Air India stops bookings on all flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has stopped taking bookings on all flights, said its officials, a day after Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri &#8220;advised&#8221; airlines to open bookings only after the government takes a decision on resuming passenger flights.<\/p>\n<p>The minister&#8217;s comment came on Saturday night, hours after the national carrier stated that it had opened bookings on select domestic flights from May 4 and on select international flights from June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the second phase of the coronavirus-induced lockdown, Air India officials said on Sunday: &#8220;We have stopped all forward bookings now. Any passenger who has booked tickets on a flight, which has been cancelled, would be getting a credit voucher for future travel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India has stopped taking bookings on all flights, said its officials, a day after Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri &#8220;advised&#8221; airlines to open bookings only after the government takes a decision on resuming passenger flights. The minister&#8217;s comment came on Saturday night, hours after the national carrier stated that it had opened bookings on select domestic flights from May 4 and on select international flights from June 1. Amid the second phase of the coronavirus-induced lockdown, Air India officials said on Sunday: &#8220;We have stopped all forward bookings now. Any passenger who has booked tickets on a [&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-347399","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\/347399","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=347399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}