{"id":378235,"date":"2020-10-14T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T03:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378235"},"modified":"2020-10-14T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T03:25:14","slug":"mamata-urges-centre-to-continue-with-kolkata-london-direct-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mamata-urges-centre-to-continue-with-kolkata-london-direct-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata urges Centre to continue with Kolkata-London direct flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that there is a huge demand for flights to European countries from this part of India and urged the Centre to continue with Kolkata-London direct flight services, that had started last month after over a decade. <\/p>\n<p>The first direct flight from London to Kolkata under the &#8216;Vande Bharat Mission&#8217; (VBM) landed here on September 17. The twice-a-week service is scheduled to continue till October 24. <\/p>\n<p>The government launched the VBM on May 7 to bring home Indians who were stranded in various countries due to coronavirus-related restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>Banerjee said that her government is ready to offer more facilities to stakeholders so that direct flight services between the two cities can continue permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that there is a huge demand for flights to European countries from this part of India and urged the Centre to continue with Kolkata-London direct flight services, that had started last month after over a decade. The first direct flight from London to Kolkata under the &#8216;Vande Bharat Mission&#8217; (VBM) landed here on September 17. The twice-a-week service is scheduled to continue till October 24. The government launched the VBM on May 7 to bring home Indians who were stranded in various countries due to coronavirus-related restrictions. Banerjee said that her [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378235","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=378235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}