{"id":417774,"date":"2021-05-31T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417774"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:11:13","slug":"flights-see-passengers-down-to-tenth-of-february-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flights-see-passengers-down-to-tenth-of-february-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights see passengers down to tenth of February peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just about three months since the second surge of Covid-19 hit India, the number of passengers carried by domestic airlines has sharply plunged \u2014 on May 25, about 39,000 passengers took a flight compared with the peak of about 3 lakh a day in February.<\/p>\n<p>It was on May 25 last year that domestic flights resumed services in 2020 after being shut down for two months following the announcement of a national lockdown. On that day, domestic airlines had carried 30,000 passengers, almost similar to the number of passengers carried on May 25 this year.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp plunge in air passenger traffic prompted the government on Friday to reduce the number of flights that airlines could operate on domestic routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just about three months since the second surge of Covid-19 hit India, the number of passengers carried by domestic airlines has sharply plunged \u2014 on May 25, about 39,000 passengers took a flight compared with the peak of about 3 lakh a day in February. It was on May 25 last year that domestic flights resumed services in 2020 after being shut down for two months following the announcement of a national lockdown. On that day, domestic airlines had carried 30,000 passengers, almost similar to the number of passengers carried on May 25 this year. The sharp plunge in [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417774","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=417774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}