{"id":366629,"date":"2020-08-07T11:47:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366629"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:17:01","slug":"flights-to-smaller-towns-hit-due-to-covid-19-restrictions-in-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flights-to-smaller-towns-hit-due-to-covid-19-restrictions-in-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights to smaller towns hit due to Covid-19 restrictions in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Flying to small towns has been hit as Covid-19 restrictions have affected regional connectivity.<br \/>\nFlights from Chennai to Cuddapah and Salem are causing a lot of loss for the airlines and Airports Authority of India (AAI) because passenger patronage is low to sustain operation of flights and the airports. There is a flight to Tuticorin though it is not under the scheme but airlines are hesitant to fly to small towns because Covid-19 restrictions are keeping passengers away.<br \/>\nAn AAI official said the aviation ministry is pushing airlines to fly on small routes as part of reopening domestic flights in a limited manner but airlines suffer loss operating on these routes. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to suspend Udan scheme for sometime, at least till domestic aviation picks up. Ten staff are stationed at each small airports like Puducherry though no flights are operated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Flying to small towns has been hit as Covid-19 restrictions have affected regional connectivity. Flights from Chennai to Cuddapah and Salem are causing a lot of loss for the airlines and Airports Authority of India (AAI) because passenger patronage is low to sustain operation of flights and the airports. There is a flight to Tuticorin though it is not under the scheme but airlines are hesitant to fly to small towns because Covid-19 restrictions are keeping passengers away. An AAI official said the aviation ministry is pushing airlines to fly on small routes as part of reopening domestic flights [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366629","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=366629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}