{"id":404788,"date":"2021-03-15T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404788"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:49:18","slug":"one-airline-is-offering-covid-tests-for-rs-299-to-get-people-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-airline-is-offering-covid-tests-for-rs-299-to-get-people-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"One airline is offering Covid tests for Rs 299 to get people flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One airline in India has hit upon a new way to make a bit of extra money while encouraging people back on planes &#8212; sell them Covid-19 tests.<\/p>\n<p>SpiceJet NSE -1.76 % Ltd., India\u2019s second-largest carrier, is offering coronavirus screening to passengers for as little as Rs 299 rupees ($4). That\u2019s about one-third the current market rate. SpiceHealth, the unit selling the tests, has also set up mobile-testing facilities for the general public in Mumbai and New Delhi, where starting from Rs 499, people can come in or have a sample collected from their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One airline in India has hit upon a new way to make a bit of extra money while encouraging people back on planes &#8212; sell them Covid-19 tests. SpiceJet NSE -1.76 % Ltd., India\u2019s second-largest carrier, is offering coronavirus screening to passengers for as little as Rs 299 rupees ($4). That\u2019s about one-third the current market rate. SpiceHealth, the unit selling the tests, has also set up mobile-testing facilities for the general public in Mumbai and New Delhi, where starting from Rs 499, people can come in or have a sample collected from their home.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404788","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\/404788","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=404788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}