{"id":451698,"date":"2021-11-25T08:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T02:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=451698"},"modified":"2021-11-25T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:14:58","slug":"india-can-soar-to-no-1-slot-in-air-travel-by-next-decade-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-can-soar-to-no-1-slot-in-air-travel-by-next-decade-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"India can soar to No.1 slot in air travel by next decade: Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has the potential to attain the top position in air travel in<\/p>\n<p>about a decade, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Wednesday, underlining the government&#8217;s commitment to pushing the sunrise sector to scale new heights.<\/p>\n<p>The government, he said, is committed to improving connectivity on both regional and long haul international routes, and has set a target of raising the number of airports to 220 by 2025 from 136 at present.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have jumped from 74 airports in the last 70 years to 62 (more) airports in the last seven years. Now we have 136 airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has the potential to attain the top position in air travel in about a decade, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Wednesday, underlining the government&#8217;s commitment to pushing the sunrise sector to scale new heights. The government, he said, is committed to improving connectivity on both regional and long haul international routes, and has set a target of raising the number of airports to 220 by 2025 from 136 at present. &#8220;We have jumped from 74 airports in the last 70 years to 62 (more) airports in the last seven years. Now we have 136 airports.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451698","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=451698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}