{"id":412300,"date":"2021-04-27T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412300"},"modified":"2021-04-27T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T06:55:32","slug":"government-extends-cap-on-domestic-airfares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-extends-cap-on-domestic-airfares\/","title":{"rendered":"Government extends cap on domestic airfares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Monday extended the cap on domestic airfares, which was earlier slated till April 30, to  May 31.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of civil aviation also capped the maximum capacity utilised by airlines to 80 per cent of the summer schedule of 2020 till May-end.<\/p>\n<p>The order comes days after the airlines had appealed to the government to reduce the capacity to 60 per cent as bookings had fallen because of the outbreak of the second wave of Covid-19. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the airlines met ministry officials and sought financial help to keep running operations and \u201cstrict enforcement\u201d of the lower fare limit fixed by the government to prevent predatory pricing by some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Monday extended the cap on domestic airfares, which was earlier slated till April 30, to May 31. The ministry of civil aviation also capped the maximum capacity utilised by airlines to 80 per cent of the summer schedule of 2020 till May-end. The order comes days after the airlines had appealed to the government to reduce the capacity to 60 per cent as bookings had fallen because of the outbreak of the second wave of Covid-19. Earlier this month, the airlines met ministry officials and sought financial help to keep running operations and \u201cstrict enforcement\u201d of the [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412300","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=412300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}