{"id":566407,"date":"2023-03-28T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=566407"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:43:26","slug":"air-india-starts-amritsar-gatwick-direct-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-starts-amritsar-gatwick-direct-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India starts Amritsar-Gatwick direct flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India on Monday launched a direct flight from Amritsar to Gatwick in the UK, with Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia saying the new international connectivity will work as a catalyst for the development of the region. \u201cEquipped with 18 business class seats featuring fully-flat beds and 238 economy class seats, the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner will be operating three flights a week on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday from Amritsar,\u201d the airline said in a release. Air India will operate 9 other weekly flights scheduled from Ahmedabad, Goa, and Kochi &#8212; making it a total of 12 weekly flights to Gatwick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn total, the airline now operates 49 flights in the UK per week &#8212; 43 flights to London (Heathrow and Gatwick) and six flights to Birmingham. Air India also operates 31 weekly flights to Heathrow, London, from Delhi and Mumbai,\u201d the release said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India on Monday launched a direct flight from Amritsar to Gatwick in the UK, with Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia saying the new international connectivity will work as a catalyst for the development of the region. \u201cEquipped with 18 business class seats featuring fully-flat beds and 238 economy class seats, the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner will be operating three flights a week on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday from Amritsar,\u201d the airline said in a release. Air India will operate 9 other weekly flights scheduled from Ahmedabad, Goa, and Kochi &#8212; making it a total of 12 weekly flights to Gatwick. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566407","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}