{"id":438496,"date":"2021-09-27T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438496"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:33:27","slug":"air-india-doubles-its-international-network-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-doubles-its-international-network-during-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India doubles its international network during Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India has spread its wings far and wide during the pandemic by operating flights to 81 international destinations \u2014 more than double from 39 in pre-Covid times. Under the Vande Bharat Mission that started last summer, the AI Group (including AI Express) has till Saturday (Sept 25) operated about 35,000 flights (counting a return trip from India as two flights) flying 19 lakh passengers out of India and 25 lakh into the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA small group of dedicated officers have kept the revenue coming in under extremely difficult situation since last March. They are the unsung heroes, coordinating with foreign governments, airports, agents and ground handlers,\u201d said a person in the know who has been coordinating these flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India has spread its wings far and wide during the pandemic by operating flights to 81 international destinations \u2014 more than double from 39 in pre-Covid times. Under the Vande Bharat Mission that started last summer, the AI Group (including AI Express) has till Saturday (Sept 25) operated about 35,000 flights (counting a return trip from India as two flights) flying 19 lakh passengers out of India and 25 lakh into the country. \u201cA small group of dedicated officers have kept the revenue coming in under extremely difficult situation since last March. They are the unsung heroes, [&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-438496","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\/438496","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=438496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}