{"id":406020,"date":"2021-03-20T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406020"},"modified":"2021-03-20T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:42:09","slug":"govt-hikes-lower-fare-band-by-5-may-impact-domestic-flight-ticket-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-hikes-lower-fare-band-by-5-may-impact-domestic-flight-ticket-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt hikes lower fare band by 5%, may impact domestic flight ticket prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Friday increased the lower fare band in the domestic sector, a move which will affect the prices of the flight tickets. The information was shared by Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been a continuous rise in price of ATF (aviation turbine fuel) so it has been decided to increase the lower fare band by 5% keeping the upper fare band unchanged,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We may open the sector for 100% operations when daily passenger traffic crosses 3.5 lakhs on 3 occasions in a month,&#8221; Puri said in the same tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Friday increased the lower fare band in the domestic sector, a move which will affect the prices of the flight tickets. The information was shared by Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri on Twitter. &#8220;There has been a continuous rise in price of ATF (aviation turbine fuel) so it has been decided to increase the lower fare band by 5% keeping the upper fare band unchanged,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;We may open the sector for 100% operations when daily passenger traffic crosses 3.5 lakhs on 3 occasions in a month,&#8221; Puri said in the same tweet.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406020","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=406020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}