{"id":520798,"date":"2022-09-09T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T05:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=520798"},"modified":"2022-09-09T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T08:15:43","slug":"why-not-launch-a-state-owned-airline-asks-dmk-mla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-not-launch-a-state-owned-airline-asks-dmk-mla\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not launch a state-owned airline? Asks DMK MLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DMK MLA T R B Raaja, who is also the head of the party\u2019s IT wing, on Thursday mooted a state-owned airline to fly within Tamil Nadu while flagging the \u201chigh airfare\u201d between the state capital and the port city of Thoothukudi. <\/p>\n<p>Raaja also proposed that the airline could be named as PeriAir, a short form for social reformer E V R Periyar. The MLA took to Twitter to talk about the \u201chigh ticket fare\u201d between Chennai and Thoothukudi which was between Rs 17,000 to Rs 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c#FlightTickets for an ATR flight from #Tuticorin to #Chennai. One can fly to Singapore with this money. Is it TIME to operate a #StateOwned flight service? &#8220;PeriAir&#8221; sounds like a good name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DMK MLA T R B Raaja, who is also the head of the party\u2019s IT wing, on Thursday mooted a state-owned airline to fly within Tamil Nadu while flagging the \u201chigh airfare\u201d between the state capital and the port city of Thoothukudi. Raaja also proposed that the airline could be named as PeriAir, a short form for social reformer E V R Periyar. The MLA took to Twitter to talk about the \u201chigh ticket fare\u201d between Chennai and Thoothukudi which was between Rs 17,000 to Rs 20,000. \u201c#FlightTickets for an ATR flight from #Tuticorin to #Chennai. One can fly to [&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-520798","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\/520798","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=520798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}