{"id":402691,"date":"2021-03-02T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T06:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402691"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T06:14:17","slug":"air-india-cancels-all-pilots-leaves-to-add-flights-as-domestic-travel-touches-new-post-covid-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-cancels-all-pilots-leaves-to-add-flights-as-domestic-travel-touches-new-post-covid-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India cancels all pilots\u2019 leaves to add flights as domestic travel touches new post-Covid high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a sign that more flights, perhaps even international, could be allowed soon, Air India has cancelled leaves of its pilots with immediate effect. The airline sent an order to its pilots on Monday, saying \u201call leave for cockpit crew stands withdrawn with immediate effect. However, leave may be granted in extreme cases depending on the urgency on a case to case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior AI officials say the airline has taken this step as the number of flights operated by the divestment-bound Maharaja are going to increase soon. The government has allowed airlines to operate upto 80% of their pre-Covid levels of domestic flights and has indicated the cap may be removed in coming summer schedule if the Covid situation continues to remain in control overall.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled domestic air travel is reviving after being allowed to resume on May 25, 2020, following a two-month suspension. Aviation minister H S Puri said February 28, 2021, saw 3,13,668 domestic passengers on 2,353 flights \u2014 the highest single day number since resumption of domestic flights last May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a sign that more flights, perhaps even international, could be allowed soon, Air India has cancelled leaves of its pilots with immediate effect. The airline sent an order to its pilots on Monday, saying \u201call leave for cockpit crew stands withdrawn with immediate effect. However, leave may be granted in extreme cases depending on the urgency on a case to case basis.\u201d Senior AI officials say the airline has taken this step as the number of flights operated by the divestment-bound Maharaja are going to increase soon. The government has allowed airlines to operate upto 80% of [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402691","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=402691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}