{"id":572458,"date":"2023-04-28T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T03:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=572458"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:18:22","slug":"easing-bilateral-rights-will-help-indian-carriers-lufthansa-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/easing-bilateral-rights-will-help-indian-carriers-lufthansa-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing bilateral rights will help Indian carriers: Lufthansa executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian carriers will be better off if the restriction on bilateral rights are eased in the long term and if passengers have more choices for air travel, Harry Hohmeister, head of global markets &amp; network, Lufthansa Group Airlines, said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>For an airline to operate a scheduled flight between two countries, there must be a \u201cbilateral air services agreement\u201d in place, which is negotiated and signed by both countries. This agreement outlines the \u201cbilateral rights\u201d, which determine the number of flights or seats that the airline is allowed to operate per week between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Bansal had said last month that the government had no plans \u201cas of now\u201d to accord additional bilateral rights to West Asian carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian carriers will be better off if the restriction on bilateral rights are eased in the long term and if passengers have more choices for air travel, Harry Hohmeister, head of global markets &amp; network, Lufthansa Group Airlines, said on Thursday. For an airline to operate a scheduled flight between two countries, there must be a \u201cbilateral air services agreement\u201d in place, which is negotiated and signed by both countries. This agreement outlines the \u201cbilateral rights\u201d, which determine the number of flights or seats that the airline is allowed to operate per week between the two countries. Civil Aviation Secretary [&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-572458","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\/572458","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=572458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}