{"id":355166,"date":"2020-06-03T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355166"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:53:11","slug":"indigo-ceo-says-flights-are-the-safest-mode-of-travel-amid-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-ceo-says-flights-are-the-safest-mode-of-travel-amid-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo CEO says flights are the safest mode of travel amid coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airline industry is trying to convince passengers that air travel is safe after the government eased a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus and allowed businesses to resume. <\/p>\n<p>Ronojoy Dutta, CEO, IndiGo said that the airbus aircraft cabin is equipped with High-Efficiency Particle Filters (HEPA) which ensures that virus does get not re-circulated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The surfaces are cleaned thoroughly and passengers are wearing face masks. So the risk of transmission by air or through droplets is really being minimised,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Aviation experts said HEPA allows complete air change approximately 15-30 times per hour or every two-four minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline industry is trying to convince passengers that air travel is safe after the government eased a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus and allowed businesses to resume. Ronojoy Dutta, CEO, IndiGo said that the airbus aircraft cabin is equipped with High-Efficiency Particle Filters (HEPA) which ensures that virus does get not re-circulated. &#8220;The surfaces are cleaned thoroughly and passengers are wearing face masks. So the risk of transmission by air or through droplets is really being minimised,&#8221; he said. Aviation experts said HEPA allows complete air change approximately 15-30 times per hour or every two-four minutes.<\/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-355166","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\/355166","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=355166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}