{"id":382347,"date":"2020-11-05T08:29:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T02:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382347"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T03:16:28","slug":"aviation-recovery-to-be-delayed-as-govt-extends-60-cap-on-flight-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aviation-recovery-to-be-delayed-as-govt-extends-60-cap-on-flight-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation recovery to be delayed as govt extends 60% cap on flight capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has extended the cap on airline capacity of 60 per cent up to February 24 despite an improvement in demand and airline executives calling for more flights to be permitted during the festive season. <\/p>\n<p>In a communication to airlines on Wednesday, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said airlines will be allowed to operate only 60 per cent capacity till February 24. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the prevailing Covid situation, airlines will be allowed to operate 60 per cent of their pre-Covid capacity,\u201d the government said in an email to airline chief executive officers (CEOs). <\/p>\n<p>Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said two weeks back that the government was contemplating relaxing the cap on capacity utilisation and that airlines may be permitted to operate 75 per cent of their pre-Covid scheduled domestic flights if passenger numbers continue to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has extended the cap on airline capacity of 60 per cent up to February 24 despite an improvement in demand and airline executives calling for more flights to be permitted during the festive season. In a communication to airlines on Wednesday, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said airlines will be allowed to operate only 60 per cent capacity till February 24. \u201cDue to the prevailing Covid situation, airlines will be allowed to operate 60 per cent of their pre-Covid capacity,\u201d the government said in an email to airline chief executive officers (CEOs). Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri [&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-382347","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\/382347","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=382347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}