{"id":403588,"date":"2021-03-08T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403588"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:38:56","slug":"india-now-has-over-700-commercial-aircraft-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-now-has-over-700-commercial-aircraft-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"India now has over 700 commercial aircraft: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s civil aviation sector, which was heavily battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, added over 20 aircraft during the year 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The inductions are considered to be a sign of revival as well as airlines reposing their faith in the long-term growth potential of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulatively, the country\u2019s domestic airlines increased their fleet by 21 aircraft last year, taking the total count to well above the 700-mark.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with IANS, Arun Kumar, Director General of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), said: &#8220;Despite the pandemic, domestic airlines added new aircraft to their fleets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The country\u2019s total commercial aircraft fleet reached 716 by the end of the last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s civil aviation sector, which was heavily battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, added over 20 aircraft during the year 2020. The inductions are considered to be a sign of revival as well as airlines reposing their faith in the long-term growth potential of the industry. Cumulatively, the country\u2019s domestic airlines increased their fleet by 21 aircraft last year, taking the total count to well above the 700-mark. In a conversation with IANS, Arun Kumar, Director General of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), said: &#8220;Despite the pandemic, domestic airlines added new aircraft to their fleets. &#8220;The country\u2019s total commercial [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403588","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=403588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}