{"id":418597,"date":"2021-06-04T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T04:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418597"},"modified":"2021-06-04T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T05:02:07","slug":"domestic-air-passenger-traffic-fell-67-sequentially-to-20-lakh-in-may-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-air-passenger-traffic-fell-67-sequentially-to-20-lakh-in-may-icra\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic air passenger traffic fell 67% sequentially to 20 lakh in May: Icra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Domestic air passenger traffic crashed to about 20 lakh passengers in May, down 67% sequentially, due to the vicious second surge in covid-19 infections in the country, credit rating agency Icra said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The May passenger traffic was also lower than the numbers registered during June-July 2020, when a two-month nationwide stringent lockdown was lifted by the government. <\/p>\n<p>Airlines\u2019 capacity deployment for May was lower by 54-55% compared to April 2021 (about 27,700 departures in May 2021, against about 60,300 departures in April 2021), indicating a fall in demand, stemming from people&#8217;s unwillingness to travel amid the pandemic, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Domestic air passenger traffic crashed to about 20 lakh passengers in May, down 67% sequentially, due to the vicious second surge in covid-19 infections in the country, credit rating agency Icra said on Thursday. The May passenger traffic was also lower than the numbers registered during June-July 2020, when a two-month nationwide stringent lockdown was lifted by the government. Airlines\u2019 capacity deployment for May was lower by 54-55% compared to April 2021 (about 27,700 departures in May 2021, against about 60,300 departures in April 2021), indicating a fall in demand, stemming from people&#8217;s unwillingness to travel amid 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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418597","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\/418597","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=418597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}