{"id":374553,"date":"2020-09-22T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374553"},"modified":"2020-09-22T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T04:12:09","slug":"domestic-airlines-bounce-back-as-bookings-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-airlines-bounce-back-as-bookings-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic airlines bounce back as bookings rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic air travel is witnessing green shoots of recovery with a five-time growth in the number of daily passengers since the restart of operations on May 25. <\/p>\n<p>According to data available with the Ministry of Civil Aviation, 1,49,371 domestic passengers flew across the country and 1,384 flights took off and landed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 9.5 million domestic passengers have now flown since the recommencement of domestic operations on May 25, 2020,&#8221; said Hardeep Singh Puri, minister of civil aviation in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>During the four months between May 25 and September 20, some new trends have emerged in the domestic air travel. \u201cThe share of online travel agents (OTAs) in daily ticket bookings has touched 70% compared to a little over 50% of the total bookings during the pre-Covid period,\u201d Nishant Pitti, CEO, EaseMyTrip told DH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic air travel is witnessing green shoots of recovery with a five-time growth in the number of daily passengers since the restart of operations on May 25. According to data available with the Ministry of Civil Aviation, 1,49,371 domestic passengers flew across the country and 1,384 flights took off and landed. &#8220;More than 9.5 million domestic passengers have now flown since the recommencement of domestic operations on May 25, 2020,&#8221; said Hardeep Singh Puri, minister of civil aviation in a tweet. During the four months between May 25 and September 20, some new trends have emerged in the domestic air [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374553","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=374553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}