{"id":449593,"date":"2021-11-12T09:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449593"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:49:03","slug":"aviation-industry-quickly-returning-to-pre-covid-levels-jyotiraditya-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aviation-industry-quickly-returning-to-pre-covid-levels-jyotiraditya-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation industry quickly returning to pre-Covid levels: Jyotiraditya Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s aviation industry is quickly returning to pre-Covid levels and airlines have reached 90% of the pre-pandemic peak traffic last week, aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said at a Times Now conference on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The domestic airlines today are carrying only 10% lower than the peak passenger number of 420,000 per day pre-Covid. In terms of passenger load factors too, which is a real indicator of demand, airlines have hit 80-85% (means airlines are flying with 85% seats full),&#8221; Scindia said. <\/p>\n<p>On the question of airlines being able to sustain these levels of traffic once the festive demand tapers, he said a lot of demand is coming from small cities that have seen a resurgence with new airports under the Ude Desh ke Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s aviation industry is quickly returning to pre-Covid levels and airlines have reached 90% of the pre-pandemic peak traffic last week, aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said at a Times Now conference on Thursday. &#8220;The domestic airlines today are carrying only 10% lower than the peak passenger number of 420,000 per day pre-Covid. In terms of passenger load factors too, which is a real indicator of demand, airlines have hit 80-85% (means airlines are flying with 85% seats full),&#8221; Scindia said. On the question of airlines being able to sustain these levels of traffic once the festive demand tapers, he said [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449593","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=449593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}