{"id":402190,"date":"2021-02-26T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402190"},"modified":"2021-02-26T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:56:03","slug":"flight-bookings-hit-as-bengal-tn-join-list-of-states-mandating-rt-pcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flight-bookings-hit-as-bengal-tn-join-list-of-states-mandating-rt-pcr\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight bookings hit as Bengal, TN join list of states mandating RT-PCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic airlines have seen 10-12 per cent drop in bookings as state governments have tightened measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>West Bengal joined Maharashtra and Karnataka on insisting on negative RT-PCR tests for travellers from certain states in a move that has dampened sentiment. Passengers from Maharashtra and Karnataka will have to undergo seven days&#8217; home quarantine in Tamil Nadu under the new rules. The Delhi government too is expected to order RT-PCR tests for passengers from affected states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last-minute bookings are not taking place. Inbound loads have dropped to cities where RT-PCR tests have been made compulsory,&#8221; said a senior executive of a private airline. Another said impact on bookings is about 20 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic airlines have seen 10-12 per cent drop in bookings as state governments have tightened measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. West Bengal joined Maharashtra and Karnataka on insisting on negative RT-PCR tests for travellers from certain states in a move that has dampened sentiment. Passengers from Maharashtra and Karnataka will have to undergo seven days&#8217; home quarantine in Tamil Nadu under the new rules. The Delhi government too is expected to order RT-PCR tests for passengers from affected states. &#8220;Last-minute bookings are not taking place. Inbound loads have dropped to cities where RT-PCR tests have been made compulsory,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402190","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}