{"id":395730,"date":"2021-01-16T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395730"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T06:19:43","slug":"covid-hit-domestic-airline-passengers-in-2020-similar-to-2014-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-hit-domestic-airline-passengers-in-2020-similar-to-2014-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-hit domestic airline passengers in 2020 similar to 2014-levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian airlines carried 63 million passengers during 2020, which is not just 56.3% less than 2019 but also lower than the number of passengers airlines flew in 2014. COVID-hit aviation sector had to bear the brunt of two-month long lockdown as well as decline in travel due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>During the month of December, airlines carried 7.3 million passengers that is 43.7% less than the same month in 2019. The government announced a lockdown leading to grounding of airlines for about two months \u2013 airlines restarted operations during May-end.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines have been registering increase in travel and new flights with the government regulating reopening of the aviation market. Airlines are currently allowed to operate 80% of pre-COVID domestic flights on regulated fares that stay till March 31, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian airlines carried 63 million passengers during 2020, which is not just 56.3% less than 2019 but also lower than the number of passengers airlines flew in 2014. COVID-hit aviation sector had to bear the brunt of two-month long lockdown as well as decline in travel due to the pandemic. During the month of December, airlines carried 7.3 million passengers that is 43.7% less than the same month in 2019. The government announced a lockdown leading to grounding of airlines for about two months \u2013 airlines restarted operations during May-end. Airlines have been registering increase in travel and new flights [&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-395730","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\/395730","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=395730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}