{"id":387723,"date":"2020-12-04T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387723"},"modified":"2020-12-04T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:51:23","slug":"airlines-allowed-to-operate-at-80-of-pre-covid-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-allowed-to-operate-at-80-of-pre-covid-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines allowed to operate at 80% of pre-covid capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines in India will be able to sell seats up to 80% of their pre-covid capacity on domestic flights, up from the existing 70%, in a further relaxation of restrictions in the sector hammered by the covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted about the change on Thursday, offering some relief to airlines looking to fly more passengers during the Christmas-New Year period. \u201cDomestic operations recommenced with 30K (30,000) passengers on 25 May &amp; have now touched a high of 2.52 lakhs on 30 Nov 2020,&#8221; Puri said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had on Thursday evening issued a circular to increase the cap on domestic flight capacity from 70% to 80% of pre-covid levels. A copy of the DGCA circular has been reviewed by Mint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines in India will be able to sell seats up to 80% of their pre-covid capacity on domestic flights, up from the existing 70%, in a further relaxation of restrictions in the sector hammered by the covid-19 pandemic. Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted about the change on Thursday, offering some relief to airlines looking to fly more passengers during the Christmas-New Year period. \u201cDomestic operations recommenced with 30K (30,000) passengers on 25 May &amp; have now touched a high of 2.52 lakhs on 30 Nov 2020,&#8221; Puri said in a social media post. The Directorate General of Civil [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387723","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=387723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}