{"id":357284,"date":"2020-06-15T10:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357284"},"modified":"2020-06-15T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:17:44","slug":"online-travel-aggregators-see-40-demand-revival-in-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/online-travel-aggregators-see-40-demand-revival-in-air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Online travel aggregators see 40% demand revival in air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU : With domestic flights resuming in a staggered manner, online travel aggregators (OTA) in India are seeing a 30-40% rise in demand with some selling more than 5,000 tickets a day. However, flight cancellations are affecting revenues of OTAs, industry officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The government imposed a lockdown in late March, which extended until May-end. All domestic and international flights were temporarily put on hold during this period, causing distress to online travel firms. Domestic flights resumed from May-end.<\/p>\n<p>OTAs are now betting on the reopening of local tourism to increase sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU : With domestic flights resuming in a staggered manner, online travel aggregators (OTA) in India are seeing a 30-40% rise in demand with some selling more than 5,000 tickets a day. However, flight cancellations are affecting revenues of OTAs, industry officials said. The government imposed a lockdown in late March, which extended until May-end. All domestic and international flights were temporarily put on hold during this period, causing distress to online travel firms. Domestic flights resumed from May-end. OTAs are now betting on the reopening of local tourism to increase sales.<\/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-357284","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\/357284","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=357284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}