{"id":397260,"date":"2021-01-25T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397260"},"modified":"2021-01-25T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T07:00:04","slug":"flight-operations-resume-at-sikkims-pakyong-airport-after-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-operations-resume-at-sikkims-pakyong-airport-after-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight operations resume at Sikkim&#8217;s Pakyong Airport after 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline operations at Sikkim&#8217;s only airport at Pakyong, near Gangtok, resumed on Saturday after a gap of almost 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>A private airline carrying 57 passengers from Delhi landed at Pakyong around noon. The flight returned with 21 passengers. This was the first flight to connect Sikkim and the national capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kapil Meena, Secretary, Sikkim tourism said, &#8220;This will boost the tourism sector of the state. It is an important step as many people have been demanding a direct flight from Pakyong to Delhi. We are getting a lot of tourists from Delhi. Now the tourist can take a direct flight from Pakyong to Delhi.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline operations at Sikkim&#8217;s only airport at Pakyong, near Gangtok, resumed on Saturday after a gap of almost 18 months. A private airline carrying 57 passengers from Delhi landed at Pakyong around noon. The flight returned with 21 passengers. This was the first flight to connect Sikkim and the national capital. Kapil Meena, Secretary, Sikkim tourism said, &#8220;This will boost the tourism sector of the state. It is an important step as many people have been demanding a direct flight from Pakyong to Delhi. We are getting a lot of tourists from Delhi. Now the tourist can take a direct [&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-397260","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\/397260","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=397260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}