{"id":385051,"date":"2020-11-19T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T05:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385051"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:00:57","slug":"vk-mathews-problem-of-indian-aviation-is-not-the-costs-its-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vk-mathews-problem-of-indian-aviation-is-not-the-costs-its-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"VK Mathews: \u2018Problem of Indian aviation is not the costs, it\u2019s the price\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business travel, severely hit by the restrictions imposed to contain Covid-19, is not expected to reach pre-pandemic levels at least till 2024, VK Mathews, chairman of IBS Software \u2014 a software technology firm with airlines and hotel companies as clients \u2014 told Pranav Mukul in an interview. Mathews also talked about the concerns in civil aviation industry and the aversion of Indian airlines in making technology investments. Edited excerpts: <\/p>\n<p>Most of your customers are foreign airlines, hotel companies, etc. Has it been a conscious strategy to not get Indian customers or are Indian airlines generally averse to investing in technology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business travel, severely hit by the restrictions imposed to contain Covid-19, is not expected to reach pre-pandemic levels at least till 2024, VK Mathews, chairman of IBS Software \u2014 a software technology firm with airlines and hotel companies as clients \u2014 told Pranav Mukul in an interview. Mathews also talked about the concerns in civil aviation industry and the aversion of Indian airlines in making technology investments. Edited excerpts: Most of your customers are foreign airlines, hotel companies, etc. Has it been a conscious strategy to not get Indian customers or are Indian airlines generally averse to investing in technology?<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385051","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=385051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}