{"id":477584,"date":"2022-03-22T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477584"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:52:43","slug":"cargo-sector-grew-by-19-per-cent-despite-pandemic-says-civil-aviation-minister-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cargo-sector-grew-by-19-per-cent-despite-pandemic-says-civil-aviation-minister-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo sector grew by 19 per cent despite pandemic, says Civil Aviation Minister Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday said that despite the pandemic, the cargo sector in India grew by 19 per cent during the last two years. &#8220;In a period of two years, revenue from cargo has grown and this has enabled Indian cargo carriers to stand on their own feet,&#8221; Scindia told members of the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir cargo had a stellar year in 2021. For many airlines, it provided a vital source of revenue as passenger demand remained in the doldrums due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. Growth opportunities, however, were lost due to the pressures of labor shortages and constraints across the logistics system. Overall, economic conditions do point towards a strong 2022,\u201d said Willie Walsh, International Air Transporters Association (IATA\u2019s) Director General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday said that despite the pandemic, the cargo sector in India grew by 19 per cent during the last two years. &#8220;In a period of two years, revenue from cargo has grown and this has enabled Indian cargo carriers to stand on their own feet,&#8221; Scindia told members of the Rajya Sabha. \u201cAir cargo had a stellar year in 2021. For many airlines, it provided a vital source of revenue as passenger demand remained in the doldrums due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. Growth opportunities, however, were lost due to the pressures of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477584","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}