{"id":352554,"date":"2020-05-22T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352554"},"modified":"2020-05-22T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:28:17","slug":"airlines-may-sustain-losses-on-limited-operations-demand-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-may-sustain-losses-on-limited-operations-demand-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines may sustain losses on limited operations, demand worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation stocks InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo) and SpiceJet gained 5-7 per cent each on Thursday after the government announced plans to open up domestic air travel from May 25. This move came as a relief for airline companies, which have not flown a single flight for the last two months even as they incurred fixed costs.<\/p>\n<p>The resumption in air travel, however, will be limited as companies can only operate a third of their capacity. Further, fares charged to customers will be in a certain band, based on the route and distance. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the limited number of flights and price restrictions, analysts believe fares are yield-accretive for airlines. For a Delhi to Mumbai flight, the fare bracket, including taxes, would be Rs 4,500 to Rs 11,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation stocks InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo) and SpiceJet gained 5-7 per cent each on Thursday after the government announced plans to open up domestic air travel from May 25. This move came as a relief for airline companies, which have not flown a single flight for the last two months even as they incurred fixed costs. The resumption in air travel, however, will be limited as companies can only operate a third of their capacity. Further, fares charged to customers will be in a certain band, based on the route and distance. Despite the limited number of flights and price restrictions, [&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-352554","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\/352554","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=352554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}