{"id":351685,"date":"2020-05-16T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351685"},"modified":"2020-05-16T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T07:10:35","slug":"aviation-sector-needs-support-from-government-to-take-off-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aviation-sector-needs-support-from-government-to-take-off-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation sector needs support from government to take off again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre\u2019s Rs 20 lakh crore economic relief package is very welcome. I hope it has a sector-specific package for the country\u2019s air transport business, which is the worst affected industry in this crisis. The aviation sector contributes significantly to the Indian economy: The air transport industry, including airlines and its supply chain, is estimated to contribute directly or indirectly $72 billion of GDP to India. According to IATA (International Air Transport Association), India was the fastest-growing domestic market in the world for the fourth year in a row at 18.6 per cent per annum, followed by China at 11.6 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre\u2019s Rs 20 lakh crore economic relief package is very welcome. I hope it has a sector-specific package for the country\u2019s air transport business, which is the worst affected industry in this crisis. The aviation sector contributes significantly to the Indian economy: The air transport industry, including airlines and its supply chain, is estimated to contribute directly or indirectly $72 billion of GDP to India. According to IATA (International Air Transport Association), India was the fastest-growing domestic market in the world for the fourth year in a row at 18.6 per cent per annum, followed by China at 11.6 [&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-351685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351685","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=351685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}