{"id":405780,"date":"2021-03-19T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405780"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:02:49","slug":"pvt-charter-aircraft-bookings-on-rise-amid-elections-improving-travel-appetite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pvt-charter-aircraft-bookings-on-rise-amid-elections-improving-travel-appetite\/","title":{"rendered":"Pvt charter aircraft bookings on rise amid elections, improving travel appetite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookings of private charter planes is showing green shoots of recovery from last year\u2019s covid-induced disruptions amid a rise in first-time fliers seeking to avoid infections, ongoing poll campaigning and improving travel appetite, especially after the rollout of coronavirus vaccines, according to senior industry officials.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings of private charter helicopters and planes, which almost halved during the pandemic, is recovering gradually, said Sanjay Julka, chief executive officer (technical) at Club One Air, one of the country\u2019s oldest and biggest air charter companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a bigger customer base as we now have two sets of customers\u2014who travelled with us during pre-covid times \u2014and a new set of customers that usually flew business class in commercial flights, but switched to private jets after post-covid,&#8221; Julka said. Club One Air\u2019s fleet includes the Falcon 2000, Challenger 600 series, Embraer Legacy 600, Cessna Citation and Hawker aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookings of private charter planes is showing green shoots of recovery from last year\u2019s covid-induced disruptions amid a rise in first-time fliers seeking to avoid infections, ongoing poll campaigning and improving travel appetite, especially after the rollout of coronavirus vaccines, according to senior industry officials. Bookings of private charter helicopters and planes, which almost halved during the pandemic, is recovering gradually, said Sanjay Julka, chief executive officer (technical) at Club One Air, one of the country\u2019s oldest and biggest air charter companies. \u201cWe have a bigger customer base as we now have two sets of customers\u2014who travelled with us during [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405780","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=405780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}