{"id":370027,"date":"2020-08-26T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370027"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T06:35:06","slug":"vistara-to-allow-passengers-to-upgrade-their-seats-through-a-bidding-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vistara-to-allow-passengers-to-upgrade-their-seats-through-a-bidding-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Vistara to allow passengers to upgrade their seats through a bidding system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vistara said on Tuesday that it had collaborated with a Canada-based firm to launch a new scheme that allows passengers to put in bids to upgrade their seats to superior classes in flights.<\/p>\n<p>The new scheme is a way \u201cto offset revenue losses experienced in 2020\u201d and \u201cleverage the higher capacity in superior cabins\u201d, the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Once a passenger has purchased an economy or a premium economy class ticket, all he or she has to do is make an offer for a seat in the higher cabin class seven days prior to the flight\u2019s departure, Vistara told its passengers through an email on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vistara said on Tuesday that it had collaborated with a Canada-based firm to launch a new scheme that allows passengers to put in bids to upgrade their seats to superior classes in flights. The new scheme is a way \u201cto offset revenue losses experienced in 2020\u201d and \u201cleverage the higher capacity in superior cabins\u201d, the airline said in a statement. Once a passenger has purchased an economy or a premium economy class ticket, all he or she has to do is make an offer for a seat in the higher cabin class seven days prior to the flight\u2019s departure, Vistara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370027","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}