{"id":366441,"date":"2020-08-06T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366441"},"modified":"2020-08-06T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:13:36","slug":"domestic-air-traffic-revival-fails-to-meet-expectations-is-at-45-of-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-air-traffic-revival-fails-to-meet-expectations-is-at-45-of-pre-pandemic-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic air traffic revival fails to meet expectations; is at 45% of pre-pandemic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: If you expect India&#8217;s aviation industry to take off immediately, you&#8217;d be considered rather optimistic. That&#8217;s because airlines are not flying as often &#8211; and to as many stations &#8211; even after a stage-gated easing of operational curbs by the Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, carriers can locally fly 1,500 flights a day, or about 45% of the pre-Covid daily run. But airlines continue to operate 750 to 800 flights with an average of about 60% of seats full &#8211; not the most encouraging sign for an industry buffeted by high fixed and variable costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: If you expect India&#8217;s aviation industry to take off immediately, you&#8217;d be considered rather optimistic. That&#8217;s because airlines are not flying as often &#8211; and to as many stations &#8211; even after a stage-gated easing of operational curbs by the Centre. Theoretically, carriers can locally fly 1,500 flights a day, or about 45% of the pre-Covid daily run. But airlines continue to operate 750 to 800 flights with an average of about 60% of seats full &#8211; not the most encouraging sign for an industry buffeted by high fixed and variable costs.<\/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-366441","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\/366441","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=366441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}