{"id":412272,"date":"2021-04-27T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T04:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412272"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T06:01:25","slug":"rich-indians-flee-by-private-jet-as-covid-19-infections-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rich-indians-flee-by-private-jet-as-covid-19-infections-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Indians flee by private jet as Covid-19 infections spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s mounting crisis surrounding a surge in coronavirus infections is prompting wealthy families to flee the country by private jet. <\/p>\n<p>With reports of hospital bed and drug shortages sweeping social media, Indian tycoons and others able to afford fares running into millions of rupees are booking flights to boltholes in Europe, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not only the ultra rich,\u201d said Rajan Mehra, chief executive officer at New Delhi-based private jet firm Club One Air. \u201cWhoever can afford to take a private jet are taking private jets.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>India reported 352,991 new infections on Monday, the highest daily tally worldwide since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s mounting crisis surrounding a surge in coronavirus infections is prompting wealthy families to flee the country by private jet. With reports of hospital bed and drug shortages sweeping social media, Indian tycoons and others able to afford fares running into millions of rupees are booking flights to boltholes in Europe, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. \u201cIt\u2019s not only the ultra rich,\u201d said Rajan Mehra, chief executive officer at New Delhi-based private jet firm Club One Air. \u201cWhoever can afford to take a private jet are taking private jets.\u201d India reported 352,991 new infections on Monday, the highest [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412272","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\/412272","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=412272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}