{"id":363875,"date":"2020-07-21T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T05:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363875"},"modified":"2020-07-21T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T05:09:03","slug":"indians-fly-private-amid-commercial-flight-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indians-fly-private-amid-commercial-flight-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians fly private amid commercial flight crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private jet operators who took a major hit during the prolonged coronavirus-induced lockdown are seeing renewed interest for flights to leisure destinations, as well as between covid-19 hotspots, despite the steep cost. Affluent customers, who are skittish about travelling in commercial airliners, are opting for such customized modes of air travel.<\/p>\n<p>With the easing of curbs on domestic flight operations, queries have surged at the top private jet operators as well as bookings for flights to leisure destinations such as Goa, Dehradun, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in the domestic travel circuit. The top international destinations include Dubai, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The private jet operators are also seeing huge interest for travel from metropolitan cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata, most of which are covid-19 hotspots, and allow only a limited number of commercial flights each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private jet operators who took a major hit during the prolonged coronavirus-induced lockdown are seeing renewed interest for flights to leisure destinations, as well as between covid-19 hotspots, despite the steep cost. Affluent customers, who are skittish about travelling in commercial airliners, are opting for such customized modes of air travel. With the easing of curbs on domestic flight operations, queries have surged at the top private jet operators as well as bookings for flights to leisure destinations such as Goa, Dehradun, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in the domestic travel circuit. The top international destinations include Dubai, Maldives, Sri Lanka [&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-363875","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\/363875","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=363875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}