{"id":408749,"date":"2021-04-03T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408749"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T05:05:40","slug":"air-india-cancels-all-pilots-leaves-to-add-flights-as-domestic-travel-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-cancels-all-pilots-leaves-to-add-flights-as-domestic-travel-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India cancels all pilots&#8217; leaves to add flights as domestic travel surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India cancelled the leaves of its pilots as the airline prepares to ramp up its operations to meet the surge in domestic air travel after travel came to a grinding halt amid the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>In an internal communication, the airlines said &#8220;leave for cockpit crew stands withdrawn with immediate effect&#8221; unless in cases of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Senior AI officials told The Times of India that this was done as the number of domestic flights operated by the airlines will soon increase. The Ministry of Civil Aviation had indicated that the cap on airline operations may completely be removed in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India cancelled the leaves of its pilots as the airline prepares to ramp up its operations to meet the surge in domestic air travel after travel came to a grinding halt amid the coronavirus pandemic. In an internal communication, the airlines said &#8220;leave for cockpit crew stands withdrawn with immediate effect&#8221; unless in cases of emergency. Senior AI officials told The Times of India that this was done as the number of domestic flights operated by the airlines will soon increase. The Ministry of Civil Aviation had indicated that the cap on airline operations may completely be removed in [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408749","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=408749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}