{"id":371262,"date":"2020-09-02T10:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T05:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371262"},"modified":"2020-09-02T10:57:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T05:27:59","slug":"kolkata-passenger-rush-as-flight-embargo-ends-200-fail-to-board-on-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-passenger-rush-as-flight-embargo-ends-200-fail-to-board-on-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: Passenger rush as flight embargo ends; 200 fail to board on first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: More than a plane-load of passengers missed their flights on Tuesday as Kolkata airport struggled to cope with the sudden rush of passengers as the flight count shot up by 50% on a day a two-month embargo on flights from six tier-I cities was lifted.<br \/>\nLengthy queues at the entry point with wait time to enter the terminal extending up to an hour led to nearly 200 no-shows. The spike in passengers also threw up major challenges in crowd control and enforcement of social distancing measures at the airport terminal.<br \/>\n&#8220;There were plenty of no-shows in each flight as passengers reported beyond the minimum time for reporting. Most passengers complained they had been stuck outside the airport&#8217;s entrance for nearly an hour. If various agencies including CISF that does the checks at the entrance fail to find a solution, it will lead to more chaos in future,&#8221; warned an airline official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: More than a plane-load of passengers missed their flights on Tuesday as Kolkata airport struggled to cope with the sudden rush of passengers as the flight count shot up by 50% on a day a two-month embargo on flights from six tier-I cities was lifted. Lengthy queues at the entry point with wait time to enter the terminal extending up to an hour led to nearly 200 no-shows. The spike in passengers also threw up major challenges in crowd control and enforcement of social distancing measures at the airport terminal. &#8220;There were plenty of no-shows in each flight as [&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-371262","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\/371262","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=371262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}