{"id":387893,"date":"2020-12-04T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387893"},"modified":"2020-12-04T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:37:18","slug":"govt-increases-domestic-flights-cap-from-70-pc-to-80-pc-of-pre-covid-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-increases-domestic-flights-cap-from-70-pc-to-80-pc-of-pre-covid-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt increases domestic flights\u2019 cap from 70 pc to 80 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 70 per cent to 80 per cent of their pre-Covid levels on Thursday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.<\/p>\n<p>The minister had said on November 11 that the Indian airlines can operate up to 70 per cent of their pre-Covid domestic passenger flights due to the prevailing demand amid the coronavirus situation.<\/p>\n<p>Puri tweeted on Thursday, \u201cDomestic operations recommenced with 30K passengers on 25 May &amp; have now touched a high of 2.52 lakhs on 30 Nov 2020.\u201d \u201cMinistry of Civil Aviation is now allowing domestic carriers to increase their operations from existing 70% to 80% of pre-Covid approved capacity,\u201d he stated.<\/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 70 per cent to 80 per cent of their pre-Covid levels on Thursday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. The minister had said on November 11 that the Indian airlines can operate up to 70 per cent of their pre-Covid domestic passenger flights due to the prevailing demand amid the coronavirus situation. Puri tweeted on Thursday, \u201cDomestic operations recommenced with 30K passengers on 25 May &amp; have now touched a high of 2.52 lakhs on 30 Nov 2020.\u201d \u201cMinistry 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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387893","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=387893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}