{"id":363480,"date":"2020-07-18T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T05:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363480"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T05:18:30","slug":"airlines-struggle-to-fill-seats-in-june-as-travel-demand-remains-muted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-struggle-to-fill-seats-in-june-as-travel-demand-remains-muted\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines struggle to fill seats in June as travel demand remains muted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian airlines operated up to fourth of their capacity in June, as the surge in covid-19 cases and restrictions imposed by states led to muted travel demand.<\/p>\n<p>Indian carriers flew 1.98 million passengers during the month, down from 12.03 million in the year-ago period, monthly data from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) released on Friday showed.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger load factor of major scheduled commercial airlines stood between 54% and 68%, which showed that carriers could fill up to two-thirds of the total seats. In June 2019, the passenger load factor stood at 81-94%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian airlines operated up to fourth of their capacity in June, as the surge in covid-19 cases and restrictions imposed by states led to muted travel demand. Indian carriers flew 1.98 million passengers during the month, down from 12.03 million in the year-ago period, monthly data from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) released on Friday showed. The passenger load factor of major scheduled commercial airlines stood between 54% and 68%, which showed that carriers could fill up to two-thirds of the total seats. In June 2019, the passenger load factor stood at 81-94%.<\/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-363480","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\/363480","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=363480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}