{"id":347473,"date":"2020-04-20T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347473"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:18:49","slug":"indigo-vistara-shut-bookings-till-may-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-vistara-shut-bookings-till-may-31\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo, Vistara shut bookings till May 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This follows the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) circular issued late on Sunday evening directing all airlines \u201cto refrain from booking tickets\u201d after May 4. Further  the airlines were told that they  will be given sufficient notice and time for restarting  operations. \u201cThis is for strict compliance by all airlines,\u201d the circular said.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the airlines declined to follow the order and asked for greater clarity on when they will be allowed to reopen bookings.  But after some time, the domestic airlines decided to follow the latest DGCA order. What prompted this change in thinking in the airlines was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually most airlines starting with IndiGo decided to implement the circular. IndiGo decided to shut bookings till May 31 thereby ending all speculations on whether the government order will be flouted again or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This follows the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) circular issued late on Sunday evening directing all airlines \u201cto refrain from booking tickets\u201d after May 4. Further the airlines were told that they will be given sufficient notice and time for restarting operations. \u201cThis is for strict compliance by all airlines,\u201d the circular said. Initially, the airlines declined to follow the order and asked for greater clarity on when they will be allowed to reopen bookings. But after some time, the domestic airlines decided to follow the latest DGCA order. What prompted this change in thinking in the airlines was [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347473","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=347473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}