{"id":460381,"date":"2022-01-05T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=460381"},"modified":"2022-01-05T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:45:02","slug":"bengal-allows-direct-flights-from-delhi-mumbai-for-3-days-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengal-allows-direct-flights-from-delhi-mumbai-for-3-days-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal allows direct flights from Delhi &amp; Mumbai for 3 days a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: West Bengal will now allow domestic flights from Delhi and Mumbai 3 days a week \u2014 Monday, Wednesday and Friday \u2014 from January 5 instead of 2 days as decided earlier.<br \/>\nDuring the second wave in April-May, the state had imposed similar curbs on flights from some states.<br \/>\nHowever, since only people with a genuine reason to travel do so during Covid surges, restrictions like these only mean higher expense and travel time for passengers. They are forced to travel one stop \u2014 say instead of Delhi\/Mumbai-Kolkata direct, Delhi\/Mumbai-Lucknow-Kolkata \u2014 on the restriction days.<br \/>\nThe same is happening now.<br \/>\nTry booking a ticket from Delhi or Mumbai to Kolkata on one of the days when direct flights aren\u2019t allowed, and airlines are giving one-stop flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: West Bengal will now allow domestic flights from Delhi and Mumbai 3 days a week \u2014 Monday, Wednesday and Friday \u2014 from January 5 instead of 2 days as decided earlier. During the second wave in April-May, the state had imposed similar curbs on flights from some states. However, since only people with a genuine reason to travel do so during Covid surges, restrictions like these only mean higher expense and travel time for passengers. They are forced to travel one stop \u2014 say instead of Delhi\/Mumbai-Kolkata direct, Delhi\/Mumbai-Lucknow-Kolkata \u2014 on the restriction days. The same is happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-460381","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\/460381","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}