{"id":421476,"date":"2021-06-21T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T04:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=421476"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T05:20:15","slug":"cargo-helps-pandemic-hit-indian-airlines-beat-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cargo-helps-pandemic-hit-indian-airlines-beat-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo helps pandemic-hit Indian airlines beat the blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two waves of Covid-19 pandemic have severely dented the air passenger segment with the demand hitting a rock bottom in both domestic and international markets. However, amid these challenging times, the cargo segment came to the rescue of domestic airlines. <\/p>\n<p>A massive shift towards online buying, triggered by repeated lockdowns and restrictions on people\u2019s movement since the first wave last year, and movement of Covid-19 vaccines, medicines and other related-essentials, led to an increased transportation of cargo with air cargo cornering a major share in it. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, budget carrier SpiceJet \u2013 the only passenger airline in the country with a dedicated freighter fleet \u2013 saw its cargo revenue growing by 36% in the third quarter (October-December) of the last financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two waves of Covid-19 pandemic have severely dented the air passenger segment with the demand hitting a rock bottom in both domestic and international markets. However, amid these challenging times, the cargo segment came to the rescue of domestic airlines. A massive shift towards online buying, triggered by repeated lockdowns and restrictions on people\u2019s movement since the first wave last year, and movement of Covid-19 vaccines, medicines and other related-essentials, led to an increased transportation of cargo with air cargo cornering a major share in it. For instance, budget carrier SpiceJet \u2013 the only passenger airline in the country [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421476","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=421476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}