{"id":417823,"date":"2021-05-31T11:44:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417823"},"modified":"2021-05-31T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:01:49","slug":"airlines-suffer-as-passenger-drought-returns-amid-second-covid-19-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-suffer-as-passenger-drought-returns-amid-second-covid-19-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines suffer as passenger drought returns amid second Covid-19 wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when beleaguered domestic airlines were getting back on their feet after the first Covid-19 outbreak grounded much of their fleets and plunged them into heavy losses, the second Covid wave has dashed hopes for a swift turnaround as passenger numbers have slumped once more. <\/p>\n<p>Domestic airlines ferried under 50,000 passengers on 736 flights on May 28, representing a steep decline from an average of 2.8 lakh passengers flown daily in February this year when reopening hopes were sky high. Before the pandemic-induced lockdown that forced air travel to ground to a halt, airlines had carried 4.4 lakh daily passengers on average in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when beleaguered domestic airlines were getting back on their feet after the first Covid-19 outbreak grounded much of their fleets and plunged them into heavy losses, the second Covid wave has dashed hopes for a swift turnaround as passenger numbers have slumped once more. Domestic airlines ferried under 50,000 passengers on 736 flights on May 28, representing a steep decline from an average of 2.8 lakh passengers flown daily in February this year when reopening hopes were sky high. Before the pandemic-induced lockdown that forced air travel to ground to a halt, airlines had carried 4.4 lakh daily passengers [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417823","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=417823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}