{"id":419792,"date":"2021-06-11T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T03:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419792"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T04:22:49","slug":"covid-19-iata-blames-international-curbs-for-muted-recovery-in-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-iata-blames-international-curbs-for-muted-recovery-in-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: IATA blames international curbs for muted recovery in travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: World over, domestic travel demand improved sequentially in April, although it remained well below pre-pandemic levels, with many countries continuing to follow travel curbs, airline industry body The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because comparisons between 2021 and 2020 monthly results are distorted by the extraordinary impact of COVID-19, unless otherwise noted all comparisons are to April 2019, which followed a normal demand pattern,&#8221; IATA, which has over 290 airline members globally, said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Total demand for air travel in April 2021 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was down 65.4% compared to April 2019. That was an improvement over the 66.9% decline recorded in March 2021 versus March 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: World over, domestic travel demand improved sequentially in April, although it remained well below pre-pandemic levels, with many countries continuing to follow travel curbs, airline industry body The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in a statement. &#8220;Because comparisons between 2021 and 2020 monthly results are distorted by the extraordinary impact of COVID-19, unless otherwise noted all comparisons are to April 2019, which followed a normal demand pattern,&#8221; IATA, which has over 290 airline members globally, said. &#8220;Total demand for air travel in April 2021 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was down 65.4% compared to April [&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-419792","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\/419792","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=419792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}