{"id":347434,"date":"2020-04-20T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347434"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:31:20","slug":"air-india-stops-bookings-after-aviation-ministers-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-stops-bookings-after-aviation-ministers-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India stops bookings after aviation minister&#8217;s advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: 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 has 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>NEW DELHI: 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 has 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 [&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-347434","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\/347434","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=347434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}