{"id":381548,"date":"2020-10-31T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381548"},"modified":"2020-10-31T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T09:22:11","slug":"fewer-international-flyers-between-oct-mar-than-projections-of-10-15-mn-capa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fewer-international-flyers-between-oct-mar-than-projections-of-10-15-mn-capa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer international flyers between Oct-Mar than projections of 10-15 mn: CAPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be fewer international passengers flying between October and March than the earlier projections of 10-15 million.Aviation advisory and research practice, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) India, has forecast that during this period, international passengers would be around 8-10 million only. It has, however, maintained its estimated domestic passenger traffic numbers at 30-40 million.<\/p>\n<p>The aviation advisory has also projected that the visiting friends and relatives (VFR) segment will decline by 20-30% in the second half of the current financial year as compared to the same period of last financial year (2019-20).<\/p>\n<p>As of September 2020, domestic air traffic has returned to around 35% of pre-Covid levels. However, international traffic stands at only around 12% of pre-Covid volumes. According to CAPA, major reasons for this are border restrictions, limited flight options and reduced desire to travel (due to higher risk in overseas travel.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be fewer international passengers flying between October and March than the earlier projections of 10-15 million.Aviation advisory and research practice, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) India, has forecast that during this period, international passengers would be around 8-10 million only. It has, however, maintained its estimated domestic passenger traffic numbers at 30-40 million. The aviation advisory has also projected that the visiting friends and relatives (VFR) segment will decline by 20-30% in the second half of the current financial year as compared to the same period of last financial year (2019-20). As of September 2020, domestic air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381548","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}