{"id":362402,"date":"2020-07-13T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362402"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:14:08","slug":"india-heeded-his-request-not-to-seek-joint-venture-to-run-mattala-airport-sri-lanka-pm-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-heeded-his-request-not-to-seek-joint-venture-to-run-mattala-airport-sri-lanka-pm-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"India heeded his request not to seek joint venture to run Mattala airport: Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has claimed that India on his government&#8217;s request has decided not to seek a joint venture with it to run the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in the country. The USD 210 million facility, 241km south-east of Colombo, is dubbed the &#8220;world&#8217;s emptiest airport&#8221; due to a lack of flights.<\/p>\n<p>The Mattala airport was funded through high interest Chinese commercial loans. The airport, built with the capacity to handle one million passengers a year, was officially opened in March 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has claimed that India on his government&#8217;s request has decided not to seek a joint venture with it to run the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in the country. The USD 210 million facility, 241km south-east of Colombo, is dubbed the &#8220;world&#8217;s emptiest airport&#8221; due to a lack of flights. The Mattala airport was funded through high interest Chinese commercial loans. The airport, built with the capacity to handle one million passengers a year, was officially opened in March 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362402","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}