{"id":350235,"date":"2020-05-07T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350235"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:16:39","slug":"city-airport-handled-30000-stranded-people-12600-mts-cargo-during-covid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/city-airport-handled-30000-stranded-people-12600-mts-cargo-during-covid-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"City Airport handled 30,000 stranded people, 12,600 MTs cargo during Covid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when civil aviation sector has been halted to ensure minimal spread of coronavirus, Delhi airport handled 30,000 stranded passengers and over 12,600 Metric Tonnes (MTs) of cargo while 1,310 evacuation and cargo flights operated from March 25 to May 4.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting well with 78 destinations across the world, most number of evacuation flights were operated by Afghanistan which took back 3,900 citizens, followed by Japan with 3,300 citizens. The Netherlands operated flights to carry back approximately 3,000 citizens.<\/p>\n<p>According to Delhi airport authorities, In lockdown period starting from March 25 till April 15, evacuation flights to 58 (16 domestic and 44 international) destinations operated out of Delhi Airport while 27,500 foreign nationals and 2,300 Indians were evacuated during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when civil aviation sector has been halted to ensure minimal spread of coronavirus, Delhi airport handled 30,000 stranded passengers and over 12,600 Metric Tonnes (MTs) of cargo while 1,310 evacuation and cargo flights operated from March 25 to May 4. Connecting well with 78 destinations across the world, most number of evacuation flights were operated by Afghanistan which took back 3,900 citizens, followed by Japan with 3,300 citizens. The Netherlands operated flights to carry back approximately 3,000 citizens. According to Delhi airport authorities, In lockdown period starting from March 25 till April 15, evacuation flights to 58 [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350235","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=350235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}