{"id":413714,"date":"2021-05-06T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413714"},"modified":"2021-05-06T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:17:03","slug":"domestic-air-traffic-fell-29-in-april-over-second-covid-19-wave-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-air-traffic-fell-29-in-april-over-second-covid-19-wave-icra\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic air traffic fell 29% in April over second Covid-19 wave: Icra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating agency Icra estimates 29 per cent sequential decline in domestic air traffic in April as the second wave of Covid-19 disrupted air travel.<\/p>\n<p>In April domestic airlines flew 5.5-5.6 million passengers compared to 7.8 million passengers in March, Icra said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>While entry restrictions and mandatory RT-PCR testing imposed by states led to drop in passenger loads, the second wave of Covid-19 has hit the demand further.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3 the daily passenger traffic fell below 100,000 for the first time since last September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of flights declined from February 2021 onwards with average daily departures close to around 2,000 in April down from 2300 in March and February. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating agency Icra estimates 29 per cent sequential decline in domestic air traffic in April as the second wave of Covid-19 disrupted air travel. In April domestic airlines flew 5.5-5.6 million passengers compared to 7.8 million passengers in March, Icra said on Wednesday. While entry restrictions and mandatory RT-PCR testing imposed by states led to drop in passenger loads, the second wave of Covid-19 has hit the demand further. On May 3 the daily passenger traffic fell below 100,000 for the first time since last September. &#8220;The number of flights declined from February 2021 onwards with average daily departures close [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413714","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=413714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}