{"id":417665,"date":"2021-05-31T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417665"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T04:52:36","slug":"covid-19-govt-asks-airlines-to-cut-capacity-due-to-second-pandemic-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-govt-asks-airlines-to-cut-capacity-due-to-second-pandemic-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Govt asks airlines to cut capacity due to second pandemic wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Scheduled airlines in India will be able to sell seats up to 50% of their total capacity on domestic flights, down from 80%, from 1 June, the ministry of civil aviation (MoCA) said citing the second wave of coronavirus that led to a high number of infections and deaths across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The measure may, however, not bring much relief to carriers, as most airlines continue to operate at a low capacity since air travel demand remains muted due to fears of contracting covid and, the collapse of business and leisure travel. <\/p>\n<p>Indian airlines resumed domestic operations on 25 May 2020, after being grounded for two months during a government-backed lockdown to contain the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Scheduled airlines in India will be able to sell seats up to 50% of their total capacity on domestic flights, down from 80%, from 1 June, the ministry of civil aviation (MoCA) said citing the second wave of coronavirus that led to a high number of infections and deaths across the country. The measure may, however, not bring much relief to carriers, as most airlines continue to operate at a low capacity since air travel demand remains muted due to fears of contracting covid and, the collapse of business and leisure travel. Indian airlines resumed domestic operations on [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417665","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=417665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}