{"id":516298,"date":"2022-08-24T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T03:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=516298"},"modified":"2022-08-24T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T04:10:00","slug":"air-passenger-volume-likely-to-double-to-400-mn-in-next-10-years-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-passenger-volume-likely-to-double-to-400-mn-in-next-10-years-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Air passenger volume likely to double to 400 mn in next 10 years: Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growth opportunities for airlines are tremendous as passenger volume will double from 200 million currently to 400 million over the next seven to 10 years&#8221;, said Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister for Civil Aviation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an ASSOCHAM event on CEOs&#8217; Roundtable discussion, the Minister said that aviation is competing closely with the railways in the air-conditioned segment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The railways today carries 125 million passengers in 1st and 2nd AC, airlines on the other hand carried 144 million domestic travellers before the pandemic and in the next 5 to 10 years, civil aviation will carry the bulwark of transportation for this limited section,&#8221; the Minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth opportunities for airlines are tremendous as passenger volume will double from 200 million currently to 400 million over the next seven to 10 years&#8221;, said Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister for Civil Aviation on Tuesday. Speaking at an ASSOCHAM event on CEOs&#8217; Roundtable discussion, the Minister said that aviation is competing closely with the railways in the air-conditioned segment. &#8220;The railways today carries 125 million passengers in 1st and 2nd AC, airlines on the other hand carried 144 million domestic travellers before the pandemic and in the next 5 to 10 years, civil aviation will carry the bulwark of transportation [&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-516298","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\/516298","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=516298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}