{"id":428671,"date":"2021-08-02T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428671"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:21:05","slug":"flyers-crew-wade-through-water-to-reach-kolkata-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flyers-crew-wade-through-water-to-reach-kolkata-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers, crew wade through water to reach Kolkata airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: A marooned 1sq-km stretch of VIP Road and Chinar Park on the New Town&#8217;s main arterial road \u2014 neck-deep at places \u2014 crashed traffic movement to and from the airport on Thursday. And it wasn\u2019t just flyers left stranded in the two-to-three-hour-long traffic snarl and ultimately missing their flights, even pilots and airline crew were caught up in the situation, leading to flight delays. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, no flights took off on time after 11pm and till evening, around 50 odd flights were delayed. \u201cSeveral passengers were delayed and our customer care phone lines were flooded with calls from anxious passengers while stuck in traffic outside the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: A marooned 1sq-km stretch of VIP Road and Chinar Park on the New Town&#8217;s main arterial road \u2014 neck-deep at places \u2014 crashed traffic movement to and from the airport on Thursday. And it wasn\u2019t just flyers left stranded in the two-to-three-hour-long traffic snarl and ultimately missing their flights, even pilots and airline crew were caught up in the situation, leading to flight delays. According to sources, no flights took off on time after 11pm and till evening, around 50 odd flights were delayed. \u201cSeveral passengers were delayed and our customer care phone lines were flooded with calls from [&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-428671","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\/428671","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=428671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}