{"id":386950,"date":"2020-11-30T09:50:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T04:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386950"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T04:51:49","slug":"almost-65-per-cent-of-domestic-air-travel-back-to-pre-covid-19-level-pradeep-singh-kharola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/almost-65-per-cent-of-domestic-air-travel-back-to-pre-covid-19-level-pradeep-singh-kharola\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 65 per cent of domestic air travel back to pre COVID-19 level: Pradeep Singh Kharola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Nearly 65 per cent of the domestic air travel has returned to the pre-COVID-19 level and now there is a need to evolve a strategy to bring back the tourism industry on its feet, Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola said on Saturday. He was addressing a webinar on &#8216;Aviation and Tourism-the Road Ahead&#8217; hosted by the Federation of Association of Indian Tourism &amp; Hospitality (FAITH).<\/p>\n<p>Kharola also said in the times of COVID-19 air travel has become a preferred mode of travel for being a safe means of transportation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the first day of resumption of domestic air services (May 25) there were 79,000 people who would travel and we were worried. But gradually it started improving,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Nearly 65 per cent of the domestic air travel has returned to the pre-COVID-19 level and now there is a need to evolve a strategy to bring back the tourism industry on its feet, Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola said on Saturday. He was addressing a webinar on &#8216;Aviation and Tourism-the Road Ahead&#8217; hosted by the Federation of Association of Indian Tourism &amp; Hospitality (FAITH). Kharola also said in the times of COVID-19 air travel has become a preferred mode of travel for being a safe means of transportation. &#8220;On the first day of resumption of domestic air [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386950","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=386950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}