{"id":505494,"date":"2022-07-15T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505494"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:26:35","slug":"when-will-the-employee-unrest-in-indian-aviation-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/when-will-the-employee-unrest-in-indian-aviation-end\/","title":{"rendered":"When will the employee unrest in Indian aviation end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s domestic air travel is yet to show a sustained recovery more than two years after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s daily domestic air traffic was approximately 4.25 lakh passengers before Covid-19 struck. On Wednesday, Indian airlines carried 70% of that number at 2.95 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>On April 17, almost 4.08 lakh passengers took to the skies, crossing the 4 lakh mark for the first time in two years. But the momentum was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>High jet fuel price is also hitting airlines\u2019 profitability. Fuel accounts for around 40% of an airline\u2019s operating expenses. A weakening rupee doubled the challenge as key cost items, notably fuel, maintenance and lease rentals are priced in dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s domestic air travel is yet to show a sustained recovery more than two years after the pandemic. India\u2019s daily domestic air traffic was approximately 4.25 lakh passengers before Covid-19 struck. On Wednesday, Indian airlines carried 70% of that number at 2.95 lakh. On April 17, almost 4.08 lakh passengers took to the skies, crossing the 4 lakh mark for the first time in two years. But the momentum was short-lived. High jet fuel price is also hitting airlines\u2019 profitability. Fuel accounts for around 40% of an airline\u2019s operating expenses. A weakening rupee doubled the challenge as key cost items, [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505494","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\/505494","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=505494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}