{"id":417328,"date":"2021-05-28T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417328"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T07:43:20","slug":"darbhanga-airport-beats-bigger-airports-in-footfall-amid-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/darbhanga-airport-beats-bigger-airports-in-footfall-amid-covid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Darbhanga airport beats bigger airports in footfall amid Covid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boosting regional air connectivity under Centre\u2019s UDAN scheme, Darbhanga airport continues to register large footfalls amid Covid pandemic despite very low human resources support. <\/p>\n<p>As many as 221,414 passengers have travelled to and from Darbhanga airport till May 22 since flight operation to Bihar\u2019s biggest city in the north was launched by low cost carrier Spicejet on November 8 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite very few flights, Darbhanga airport has recently been way ahead of other airports in the eastern region, including Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Bhwaneshwar (Odisha), in terms of passenger footfall. <\/p>\n<p>Past one week\u2019s (May 16- 22) data released by the Airport Authority of India\u2019s (AAI) regional headquarters reveals that despite being a single operator airport,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boosting regional air connectivity under Centre\u2019s UDAN scheme, Darbhanga airport continues to register large footfalls amid Covid pandemic despite very low human resources support. As many as 221,414 passengers have travelled to and from Darbhanga airport till May 22 since flight operation to Bihar\u2019s biggest city in the north was launched by low cost carrier Spicejet on November 8 last year. Despite very few flights, Darbhanga airport has recently been way ahead of other airports in the eastern region, including Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Bhwaneshwar (Odisha), in terms of passenger footfall. Past one week\u2019s (May 16- 22) data released by 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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417328","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\/417328","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=417328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}