{"id":376800,"date":"2020-10-05T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T06:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376800"},"modified":"2020-10-05T12:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T06:59:54","slug":"calcutta-airport-parking-culture-survives-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/calcutta-airport-parking-culture-survives-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcutta airport parking culture survives Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way passengers travel on flights but an old problem at the Calcutta airport \u2014 kerbside parking of VIP cars in front of the terminal \u2014 continues like before. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Metro saw many VIP cars parked in front of the terminal for more than an hour. During the period, two parking attendants were seen slapping a fine on a private vehicle for standing in front of the terminal for 12 minutes, two minutes more than the stipulated 10 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>An airport official said cars were allowed a \u201cdwell time\u201d of three minutes, which refers to how long a vehicle can remain in front of the terminal building without paying any fine, and a \u201crunning time\u201d of seven minutes, which denotes the time taken to travel to and from the terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way passengers travel on flights but an old problem at the Calcutta airport \u2014 kerbside parking of VIP cars in front of the terminal \u2014 continues like before. On Sunday, Metro saw many VIP cars parked in front of the terminal for more than an hour. During the period, two parking attendants were seen slapping a fine on a private vehicle for standing in front of the terminal for 12 minutes, two minutes more than the stipulated 10 minutes. An airport official said cars were allowed a \u201cdwell time\u201d of three minutes, which refers [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376800","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=376800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}