{"id":377553,"date":"2020-10-09T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377553"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:24:22","slug":"govt-to-allow-airlines-to-increase-capacity-to-75-of-pre-covid-levels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-allow-airlines-to-increase-capacity-to-75-of-pre-covid-levels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to allow airlines to increase capacity to 75% of pre-COVID levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: As demand for flying is set to increase during the upcoming festive season, the government is likely to increase the number of flights allowed to up to 75 per cent of pre-COVID levels in another week to ten days, aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe increase in the number of passengers taking domestic flights is encouraging and the need is to further increase the number of flights allowed. We are currently in discussions and may increase it to up to 75 per cent in a week to ten days,\u201d Puri told reporters today.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines, which were grounded due to the lockdown during the months of April and May, were allowed to restart operations from May 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: As demand for flying is set to increase during the upcoming festive season, the government is likely to increase the number of flights allowed to up to 75 per cent of pre-COVID levels in another week to ten days, aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said today. \u201cThe increase in the number of passengers taking domestic flights is encouraging and the need is to further increase the number of flights allowed. We are currently in discussions and may increase it to up to 75 per cent in a week to ten days,\u201d Puri told reporters today. Airlines, which were [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377553","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=377553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}