{"id":432783,"date":"2021-08-28T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T05:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432783"},"modified":"2021-08-28T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T07:22:47","slug":"visiting-friends-relatives-leads-to-5-fold-rise-in-domestic-flyers-post-2nd-wave-at-igia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/visiting-friends-relatives-leads-to-5-fold-rise-in-domestic-flyers-post-2nd-wave-at-igia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Visiting friends &amp; relatives&#8217; leads to 5-fold rise in domestic flyers post 2nd wave at IGIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Post the deadly second wave of Covid, India\u2019s air travel is showing signs of revival again. The busiest airport, Delhi\u2019s IGIA, says it has handled 90,000 passengers daily in the first 10 days of this month \u2014 up over five times from the numbers seen in May 2021, the peak month of the deadly second wave. <\/p>\n<p>Travel segment \u201cvisiting family and relatives (VFR)\u201d has been the biggest reasons for the recovery in airport footfalls, followed by vacationers. <\/p>\n<p>Business travel, with several offices still closed, remains subdued, says Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn June 2021, most of those who flew were in VFR category (48 %), followed by vacationers (25%) and business travellers (19%),\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Post the deadly second wave of Covid, India\u2019s air travel is showing signs of revival again. The busiest airport, Delhi\u2019s IGIA, says it has handled 90,000 passengers daily in the first 10 days of this month \u2014 up over five times from the numbers seen in May 2021, the peak month of the deadly second wave. Travel segment \u201cvisiting family and relatives (VFR)\u201d has been the biggest reasons for the recovery in airport footfalls, followed by vacationers. Business travel, with several offices still closed, remains subdued, says Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL). \u201cIn June 2021, most of those [&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-432783","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\/432783","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=432783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}