{"id":351909,"date":"2020-05-18T12:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351909"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:21:34","slug":"interview-we-offered-to-fly-migrants-and-the-offer-still-stands-says-spicejet-cmd-ajay-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/interview-we-offered-to-fly-migrants-and-the-offer-still-stands-says-spicejet-cmd-ajay-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW | We offered to fly migrants and the offer still stands, says SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though hit badly by the two-month-long grounding of passenger aircrafts, Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet talks about their proposal to fly migrant labourers and why they are a resilient industry during TNIE&#8217;s webinar.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the problem of migrant labourers walking back home arose, SpiceJet had offered to the government to fly them instead  &#8211; but received no response &#8211; revealed Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of SpiceJet. &#8220;We had offered (airlifts) from our side very early on. We said to them, sending people on 5-6 days of bus ride where they are susceptible to infection, could have been substituted with a two and a half hour journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though hit badly by the two-month-long grounding of passenger aircrafts, Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet talks about their proposal to fly migrant labourers and why they are a resilient industry during TNIE&#8217;s webinar. As soon as the problem of migrant labourers walking back home arose, SpiceJet had offered to the government to fly them instead &#8211; but received no response &#8211; revealed Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of SpiceJet. &#8220;We had offered (airlifts) from our side very early on. We said to them, sending people on 5-6 days of bus ride where they are susceptible to infection, [&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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351909","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=351909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}