{"id":354438,"date":"2020-05-30T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354438"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T05:38:02","slug":"airlines-to-witness-47-decline-in-passengers-in-2020-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-to-witness-47-decline-in-passengers-in-2020-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines to witness 47% decline in passengers in 2020 due to the Covid -19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian airlines are expected to witness a 47% decline in passengers, in 2020, on account of the restrictions imposed to contain the spread of Covid -19 virus and the consequent economic downturn. The Indian government should also help the aviation sector with a financial package and help develop a high yield market to ensure profitability of airlines in the aftermath of crisis, said industry executives at a webinar conducted by Capa India.<\/p>\n<p>The aviation sector has been the worst casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic, as flights had to be grounded for two months. Airlines, though, have started operations in the domestic market since May 25 with heightened restrictions and safety measures in place. As a consequence of the total shut down of the sector sustainability of some of the airlines have now come under the scanner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian airlines are expected to witness a 47% decline in passengers, in 2020, on account of the restrictions imposed to contain the spread of Covid -19 virus and the consequent economic downturn. The Indian government should also help the aviation sector with a financial package and help develop a high yield market to ensure profitability of airlines in the aftermath of crisis, said industry executives at a webinar conducted by Capa India. The aviation sector has been the worst casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic, as flights had to be grounded for two months. Airlines, though, have started operations in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354438","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}