{"id":427745,"date":"2021-07-28T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T02:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427745"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:17:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T02:47:42","slug":"indian-govt-should-restart-scheduled-international-flights-iata-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-govt-should-restart-scheduled-international-flights-iata-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian govt should restart scheduled international flights : IATA DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) wants India to restart scheduled international flights and end capacity and fare capping in domestic market as these distort competition and hurt consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The civil aviation ministry put in place a cap on capacity and fares following resumption of domestic air travel last May. Similarly scheduled international flights are still suspended by India and these have been replaced with air travel bubbles with over 25 countries. <\/p>\n<p>IATA which represents over 290 global airlines including four in India feels that these restrictive measures are no longer warranted. <\/p>\n<p>In an interaction with mediapersons on Tuesday, IATA Director General Willie Walsh said the Indian government should take data driven decisions and remove regulations which restrict capacity and access to allow aviation industry to recover quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) wants India to restart scheduled international flights and end capacity and fare capping in domestic market as these distort competition and hurt consumers. The civil aviation ministry put in place a cap on capacity and fares following resumption of domestic air travel last May. Similarly scheduled international flights are still suspended by India and these have been replaced with air travel bubbles with over 25 countries. IATA which represents over 290 global airlines including four in India feels that these restrictive measures are no longer warranted. In an interaction with mediapersons on Tuesday, IATA [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427745","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=427745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}