{"id":499776,"date":"2022-06-21T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499776"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T05:00:11","slug":"sri-lanka-to-resume-flights-from-jaffna-to-india-in-july-aviation-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-to-resume-flights-from-jaffna-to-india-in-july-aviation-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to resume flights from Jaffna to India in July: Aviation Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka will resume flights from the northern Jaffna peninsula to India next month, Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has said, asserting that the move would support the country\u2019s tourism industry and help in easing the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority plans to attract 8,00,000 tourists during the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe northern Jaffna peninsula\u2019s Palaly airport is to resume flights to India from next month,\u201d Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said on Saturday. However, he did not specify a date. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cResuming the flights would improve tourism and help the country in the current dollar crisis,\u201d de Silva said after inspecting the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka will resume flights from the northern Jaffna peninsula to India next month, Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has said, asserting that the move would support the country\u2019s tourism industry and help in easing the economic crisis. The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority plans to attract 8,00,000 tourists during the rest of the year. \u201cThe northern Jaffna peninsula\u2019s Palaly airport is to resume flights to India from next month,\u201d Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said on Saturday. However, he did not specify a date. \u201cResuming the flights would improve tourism and help the country in the current [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499776","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=499776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}