{"id":391168,"date":"2020-12-23T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391168"},"modified":"2020-12-23T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:36:37","slug":"recovery-in-international-flights-could-be-delayed-due-to-new-virus-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/recovery-in-international-flights-could-be-delayed-due-to-new-virus-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery in international flights could be delayed due to new virus strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The recent rise of a new coronavirus strain, considered more infectious than the existing one, could further push back a recovery of international airlines operations by a few quarters as countries are rushing to close their borders to prevent the spread of this new strain of the virus, industry experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries &#8212; including India &#8212; have temporarily suspended flights to and from the UK amid concerns that unrestricted movement will trigger a renewed surge in covid cases.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the new strain of virus on international airline operations and its recovery will depend on how fatal it is, and also on the launch of a vaccine and its availability for the masses, said Kinjal Shah, vice president at rating agency ICRA, who closely tracks the airline sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The recent rise of a new coronavirus strain, considered more infectious than the existing one, could further push back a recovery of international airlines operations by a few quarters as countries are rushing to close their borders to prevent the spread of this new strain of the virus, industry experts said. Several countries &#8212; including India &#8212; have temporarily suspended flights to and from the UK amid concerns that unrestricted movement will trigger a renewed surge in covid cases. The impact of the new strain of virus on international airline operations and its recovery will depend on [&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-391168","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\/391168","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=391168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}