{"id":411780,"date":"2021-04-24T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411780"},"modified":"2021-04-24T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T03:57:23","slug":"airfares-soar-private-jets-in-demand-as-rich-indians-flee-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airfares-soar-private-jets-in-demand-as-rich-indians-flee-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfares soar, private jets in demand as rich Indians flee Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airfares soared and demand for private jets boomed Friday as Indians who could afford it scrambled to escape a Covid surge before flights to the United Arab Emirates shut down. <\/p>\n<p>All flights from the UAE to India &#8212; one of the world&#8217;s busiest air corridors &#8212; will be suspended from Sunday as coronavirus cases in the South Asian nation reach record levels and overwhelm hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Price comparison websites showed one-way commercial flights from Mumbai to Dubai on Friday and Saturday costing as much as 80,000 rupees ($1,000), around 10 times the usual rate. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the New Delhi to Dubai route were going for more than 50,000 rupees, five times the normal level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airfares soared and demand for private jets boomed Friday as Indians who could afford it scrambled to escape a Covid surge before flights to the United Arab Emirates shut down. All flights from the UAE to India &#8212; one of the world&#8217;s busiest air corridors &#8212; will be suspended from Sunday as coronavirus cases in the South Asian nation reach record levels and overwhelm hospitals. Price comparison websites showed one-way commercial flights from Mumbai to Dubai on Friday and Saturday costing as much as 80,000 rupees ($1,000), around 10 times the usual rate. Tickets for the New Delhi to Dubai [&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-411780","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\/411780","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=411780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}