{"id":373982,"date":"2020-09-17T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373982"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T07:10:45","slug":"covid-19-impact-indian-carriers-continue-to-see-subdued-demand-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-indian-carriers-continue-to-see-subdued-demand-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: Indian carriers continue to see subdued demand in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian airlines operated a third of their scheduled domestic flights in August and ferried more passengers than previous months, but continued to witness muted demand compared to pre-covid days largely because of the rising number of infections across India.<\/p>\n<p>Indian carriers flew 2.83 million passengers in August, down from 11.79 million in the year-ago period, showed monthly data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger load factor (PLF) of major scheduled commercial airlines stood at 58-76%. In August 2019, the PLF for major carriers stood at 78-90%. PLF, or load factor, measures the capacity utilization of transport services, including airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian airlines operated a third of their scheduled domestic flights in August and ferried more passengers than previous months, but continued to witness muted demand compared to pre-covid days largely because of the rising number of infections across India. Indian carriers flew 2.83 million passengers in August, down from 11.79 million in the year-ago period, showed monthly data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Wednesday. The passenger load factor (PLF) of major scheduled commercial airlines stood at 58-76%. In August 2019, the PLF for major carriers stood at 78-90%. PLF, or load factor, measures the [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373982","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\/373982","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=373982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}