{"id":387317,"date":"2020-12-02T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387317"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:56:24","slug":"post-covid-igia-is-indias-most-connected-airport-with-flights-to-69-domestic-66-international-destinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/post-covid-igia-is-indias-most-connected-airport-with-flights-to-69-domestic-66-international-destinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Covid, IGIA is India\u2019s most connected airport with flights to 69 domestic, 66 international destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The capital\u2019s IGI Airport has re-emerged as India\u2019s most connected airport as air travel begins reviving in the post pandemic world. Delhi saw flights to 69 domestic destinations in October 2020 (this number was 67 before the pandemic), followed by Mumbai and Bengaluru that have flights to 59 cities in India; Hyderabad at 57; Kolkata at 49 and Chennai at 44.<br \/>\nWhile international flights remain suspended, India has enabled foreign travel under air bubbles and Vande Bharat Mission. \u201cDelhi Airport is now connected with 66 international destinations through VBM flights. In October 2020, IGIA was connected with 26 destinations in Asia; 14 in middle east; 11 in Europe; 8 in North America; 4 in Africa and 3 in Australia. Delhi now has flights to and from 20 countries as compared to 51 in pre-COVID period,\u201d according to Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) data.<br \/>\nIGIA reached the 10-lakh international passenger mark in October 2020, since May 25, 2020. It has seen a \u201csignificant number of inbound travellers from Dubai, Changi, Bangkok, Heathrow and Kathmandu during the festive season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The capital\u2019s IGI Airport has re-emerged as India\u2019s most connected airport as air travel begins reviving in the post pandemic world. Delhi saw flights to 69 domestic destinations in October 2020 (this number was 67 before the pandemic), followed by Mumbai and Bengaluru that have flights to 59 cities in India; Hyderabad at 57; Kolkata at 49 and Chennai at 44. While international flights remain suspended, India has enabled foreign travel under air bubbles and Vande Bharat Mission. \u201cDelhi Airport is now connected with 66 international destinations through VBM flights. In October 2020, IGIA was connected with 26 [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387317","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=387317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}