{"id":354769,"date":"2020-06-01T11:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354769"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:23:54","slug":"from-3k-daily-flights-pre-lockdown-indian-airports-now-handle-just-a-few-hundred-amid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/from-3k-daily-flights-pre-lockdown-indian-airports-now-handle-just-a-few-hundred-amid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"From 3K daily flights pre-lockdown, Indian airports now handle just a few hundred amid restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A total of 369 domestic flights carrying 35,055 passengers operated in India till 5 PM on Sunday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.<br \/>\nDomestic services were suspended in India due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and resumed after a gap of two months on May 25.<br \/>\nEarlier during the day, he said a total of 529 flights carrying 45,646 passengers had operated on Saturday.<br \/>\nIndian carriers operated a total of 2,340 flights till Friday &#8212; 428 on Monday, 445 on Tuesday, 460 on Wednesday, 494 on Thursday and 513 on Friday.<br \/>\n&#8220;Domestic operations on 31st May till 1700 hrs. Departures 369. 35,055 passengers handled,&#8221; Puri said on Twitter on Sunday.<br \/>\n&#8220;Domestic operations on 30th May 2020 (Day 6) till 2359 hrs. Departures 529. 45,646 passengers handled. Arrivals 530. 45,622 passengers handled,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nA departure is counted as a flight during the day.<br \/>\nDuring the pre-lockdown period, Indian airports handled around 3,000 daily domestic flights, aviation industry sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A total of 369 domestic flights carrying 35,055 passengers operated in India till 5 PM on Sunday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Domestic services were suspended in India due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and resumed after a gap of two months on May 25. Earlier during the day, he said a total of 529 flights carrying 45,646 passengers had operated on Saturday. Indian carriers operated a total of 2,340 flights till Friday &#8212; 428 on Monday, 445 on Tuesday, 460 on Wednesday, 494 on Thursday and 513 on Friday. &#8220;Domestic operations on 31st May till 1700 [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354769","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=354769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}