{"id":362639,"date":"2020-07-14T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362639"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:16:43","slug":"passenger-demand-for-air-travel-to-contract-by-49-for-indian-airlines-in-2020-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passenger-demand-for-air-travel-to-contract-by-49-for-indian-airlines-in-2020-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger demand for air travel to contract by 49% for Indian airlines in 2020: IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The passenger demand for air travel will contract by 49% this year for Indian carriers in comparison to last year due to the COVID-19 crisis, said global airlines body IATA on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the Indian carriers&#8217; revenues will decrease by $11.61 billion this year in comparison to last year due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>It said the airlines of the Asia-Pacific region will see passenger demand collapse by 53.8% this year in comparison to last year.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger demand or RPK (revenue passenger kilometers) for a flight is calculated by multiplying the number of passengers sitting in the flight to the distance travelled by that flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The passenger demand for air travel will contract by 49% this year for Indian carriers in comparison to last year due to the COVID-19 crisis, said global airlines body IATA on Monday. In a statement, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the Indian carriers&#8217; revenues will decrease by $11.61 billion this year in comparison to last year due to the pandemic. It said the airlines of the Asia-Pacific region will see passenger demand collapse by 53.8% this year in comparison to last year. The passenger demand or RPK (revenue passenger kilometers) for a flight is calculated [&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-362639","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\/362639","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=362639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}