{"id":347576,"date":"2020-04-20T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347576"},"modified":"2020-04-20T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:25:07","slug":"goair-to-furlough-90-of-staff-after-india-extends-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/goair-to-furlough-90-of-staff-after-india-extends-coronavirus-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"GoAir to furlough 90% of staff after India extends coronavirus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian budget airline GoAir has asked as many as 90% of its 5,500 employees to go on indefinite leave without pay as the Indian government&#8217;s coronavirus flight restrictions dry up cash flow, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The airline will keep paying a small number of employees on payroll to restart operations when the government allows flights, the report said, citing people with knowledge of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a tweet https:\/\/bit.ly\/2zefUCf late on Saturday that the government is yet to take a decision on domestic and international flights. <\/p>\n<p>Puri said &#8220;airlines are advised to open their bookings only after a decision in this regard has been taken by the Government.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian budget airline GoAir has asked as many as 90% of its 5,500 employees to go on indefinite leave without pay as the Indian government&#8217;s coronavirus flight restrictions dry up cash flow, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday. The airline will keep paying a small number of employees on payroll to restart operations when the government allows flights, the report said, citing people with knowledge of the matter. India&#8217;s civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a tweet https:\/\/bit.ly\/2zefUCf late on Saturday that the government is yet to take a decision on domestic and international flights. Puri said &#8220;airlines are [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347576","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=347576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}