{"id":349767,"date":"2020-05-06T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349767"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:51:26","slug":"london-delhi-flight-ticket-to-cost-rs-50000-govt-on-evacuating-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/london-delhi-flight-ticket-to-cost-rs-50000-govt-on-evacuating-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"London-Delhi flight ticket to cost Rs 50,000: Govt on evacuating Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India will operate 64 flights from May 7 to May 13 to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals stranded abroad amid the COVID-19-induced lockdown, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, while addressing a virtual press conference, said private Indian airlines may join the repatriation effort after May 13.<\/p>\n<p>Those availing the repatriation flights will be charged, Puri said.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger on a London-Delhi flight will be charged Rs 50,000 and on a Dhaka-Delhi flight Rs 12,000, the aviation minister said. One-way fare from the Gulf countries such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha to Kochi, Kerala range from Rs 15,000 to Rs 16,000. A ticket for flights from the United States to India has been priced at Rs 1,00,000, hindustantimes.com reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India will operate 64 flights from May 7 to May 13 to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals stranded abroad amid the COVID-19-induced lockdown, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday. The minister, while addressing a virtual press conference, said private Indian airlines may join the repatriation effort after May 13. Those availing the repatriation flights will be charged, Puri said. A passenger on a London-Delhi flight will be charged Rs 50,000 and on a Dhaka-Delhi flight Rs 12,000, the aviation minister said. One-way fare from the Gulf countries such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha to [&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-349767","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\/349767","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=349767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}