{"id":440722,"date":"2021-10-07T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440722"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:47:16","slug":"as-festivities-begin-domestic-air-passenger-traffic-surges-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-festivities-begin-domestic-air-passenger-traffic-surges-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"As festivities begin, domestic air passenger traffic surges in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the fall of coronavirus cases and with festivities ahead, India&#8217;s domestic air passenger traffic grew marginally by 2-3 per cent at around 69 lakh in September, credit ratings agency Icra said in a release on Wednesday. This comes as domestic flights operated at a higher capacity at 54 per cent in September 2021 over the same month last year. <\/p>\n<p>However, this has also fuelled a greater risk of the third wave of Covid-19 infections, the Indian Centre of Medical Research (ICMR) worried and advised against &#8220;revenge travel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking this into consideration, the third-wave peak can increase by up to 47 percent during the holiday season and can occur two weeks earlier compared to a scenario of easing restrictions in the absence of holiday travel,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the fall of coronavirus cases and with festivities ahead, India&#8217;s domestic air passenger traffic grew marginally by 2-3 per cent at around 69 lakh in September, credit ratings agency Icra said in a release on Wednesday. This comes as domestic flights operated at a higher capacity at 54 per cent in September 2021 over the same month last year. However, this has also fuelled a greater risk of the third wave of Covid-19 infections, the Indian Centre of Medical Research (ICMR) worried and advised against &#8220;revenge travel&#8221;. \u201cTaking this into consideration, the third-wave peak can increase by up to [&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-440722","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\/440722","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=440722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}