{"id":421193,"date":"2021-06-18T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T06:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=421193"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:49:22","slug":"pushed-back-9-months-second-wave-brought-domestic-flyers-in-may-back-to-july-2020-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pushed-back-9-months-second-wave-brought-domestic-flyers-in-may-back-to-july-2020-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushed back 9 months: Second wave brought domestic flyers in May back to July 2020 level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The peak month of Covid\u2019s devastating second wave \u2014 May 2021 \u2014 saw the number of domestic flyers falling to levels seen just after scheduled flights were allowed to resume following a two-month suspension last year. <\/p>\n<p>According to DGCA data, 21.1 lakh people flew flew within the country last month. <\/p>\n<p>Domestic flights were suspended for two months from March 25 to May 24, 2020, during last year\u2019s nationwide lockdown. <\/p>\n<p>June and July, 2020, had seen 19.8 lakh and just over 21 lakh domestic flyers, respectively, as per DGCA data. When the first wave ebbed and daily Covid cases started falling, domestic flights saw an increase in the number of passengers \u2014 with the peak of 78 lakh in a month being touched twice in February and March, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The peak month of Covid\u2019s devastating second wave \u2014 May 2021 \u2014 saw the number of domestic flyers falling to levels seen just after scheduled flights were allowed to resume following a two-month suspension last year. According to DGCA data, 21.1 lakh people flew flew within the country last month. Domestic flights were suspended for two months from March 25 to May 24, 2020, during last year\u2019s nationwide lockdown. June and July, 2020, had seen 19.8 lakh and just over 21 lakh domestic flyers, respectively, as per DGCA data. When the first wave ebbed and daily Covid cases [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421193","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=421193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}