{"id":347698,"date":"2020-04-21T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347698"},"modified":"2020-04-21T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:48:24","slug":"luxury-helicopter-services-turn-rescuers-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/luxury-helicopter-services-turn-rescuers-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury helicopter services turn rescuers during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asset-light urban air mobility (UAM) company, Blade India, that is the Uber for helicopters, is working on plugging a major gap in the market right now: emergency airlifts and organ transportation.<\/p>\n<p>In March, to fend off further Covid-19 threats, India closed its air space off to commercial flights till April 14, cancelling about 700 flights a week of both foreign and Indian carriers.<\/p>\n<p>This is when the New York-based urban mobility service that set up office in India just last year sprung into action.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise VIP and luxury chopper companies have had to stop their regular pilot seat service due to the lockdown and have now started catering to emergency and essential travel charters with clearances from local authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asset-light urban air mobility (UAM) company, Blade India, that is the Uber for helicopters, is working on plugging a major gap in the market right now: emergency airlifts and organ transportation. In March, to fend off further Covid-19 threats, India closed its air space off to commercial flights till April 14, cancelling about 700 flights a week of both foreign and Indian carriers. This is when the New York-based urban mobility service that set up office in India just last year sprung into action. Otherwise VIP and luxury chopper companies have had to stop their regular pilot seat service due [&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-347698","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\/347698","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=347698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}