{"id":383885,"date":"2020-11-12T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383885"},"modified":"2020-11-12T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T07:45:00","slug":"govt-increases-domestic-flights-cap-from-60-pc-to-70-pc-of-pre-covid-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-increases-domestic-flights-cap-from-60-pc-to-70-pc-of-pre-covid-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt increases domestic flights&#8217; cap from 60 pc to 70 pc of pre-COVID levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cap on the number of domestic flights that Indian airlines are permitted to operate was increased from 60 per cent to 70 per cent of their pre-COVID levels on Wednesday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Aviation Ministry had said on September 2 that the Indian airlines can operate maximum 60 per cent of their pre-COVID domestic passenger flights due to the prevailing coronavirus situation.<\/p>\n<p>It had clarified on October 29 that the 60 per cent cap would be in place till &#8220;February 24, 2021 or until further orders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Puri tweeted on Wednesday, &#8220;Domestic operations recommenced with 30K passengers on 25 May and have reached 2.06 lakhs on 8 Nov 2020.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cap on the number of domestic flights that Indian airlines are permitted to operate was increased from 60 per cent to 70 per cent of their pre-COVID levels on Wednesday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. The Civil Aviation Ministry had said on September 2 that the Indian airlines can operate maximum 60 per cent of their pre-COVID domestic passenger flights due to the prevailing coronavirus situation. It had clarified on October 29 that the 60 per cent cap would be in place till &#8220;February 24, 2021 or until further orders&#8221;. Puri tweeted on Wednesday, &#8220;Domestic operations recommenced [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383885","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=383885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}