{"id":463566,"date":"2022-01-24T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463566"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:51:28","slug":"covid-19-impact-ecs-ban-on-physical-rallies-hits-business-of-charter-flight-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-ecs-ban-on-physical-rallies-hits-business-of-charter-flight-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: EC&#8217;s ban on physical rallies hits business of charter flight operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission&#8217;s ban on physical rallies in five poll-bound states since January 8 due to the ongoing Covid-19 wave has hit the business of charter flight operators. <\/p>\n<p>Just 10-15 per cent of the 350-400 flight hours per month are election-related travel at this stage, the operators said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Election travel has not really picked up. It had started to pick up initially, around mid-December, but then the EC announced the ban on rallies so that completely stopped most of the (election-related) travel,&#8221; Rajan Mehra, CEO, Club One Air told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>Election travel is very limited, added Mehra, former India head of Qatar Airways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission&#8217;s ban on physical rallies in five poll-bound states since January 8 due to the ongoing Covid-19 wave has hit the business of charter flight operators. Just 10-15 per cent of the 350-400 flight hours per month are election-related travel at this stage, the operators said. &#8220;Election travel has not really picked up. It had started to pick up initially, around mid-December, but then the EC announced the ban on rallies so that completely stopped most of the (election-related) travel,&#8221; Rajan Mehra, CEO, Club One Air told PTI. Election travel is very limited, added Mehra, former India head [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463566","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=463566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}