{"id":588882,"date":"2023-07-04T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=588882"},"modified":"2023-07-04T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:14:17","slug":"spicejet-is-most-delayed-indian-airline-as-summer-rush-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-is-most-delayed-indian-airline-as-summer-rush-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet is most delayed Indian airline as summer rush hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on cash-strapped SpiceJet Ltd are experiencing the most flight disruptions in India, the world\u2019s fastest-growing aviation market. <\/p>\n<p>With the busy summer travel season arriving, only 61 per cent of SpiceJet\u2019s flights departed on time from the country\u2019s four biggest airports \u2014 Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad \u2014 in May, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. That\u2019s down from the already trailing figure of nearly 70 per cent in April, the agency\u2019s data showed. <\/p>\n<p>SpiceJet, which is operating about 250 flights a day, isn\u2019t alone. Air India Ltd., the nation\u2019s second-largest carrier, slid to fifth from second in the punctuality ranks, with almost twice as many flight delays in May as a month earlier. Akasa Air, launched less than a year ago, was the most on-time, though its performance also slipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on cash-strapped SpiceJet Ltd are experiencing the most flight disruptions in India, the world\u2019s fastest-growing aviation market. With the busy summer travel season arriving, only 61 per cent of SpiceJet\u2019s flights departed on time from the country\u2019s four biggest airports \u2014 Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad \u2014 in May, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. That\u2019s down from the already trailing figure of nearly 70 per cent in April, the agency\u2019s data showed. SpiceJet, which is operating about 250 flights a day, isn\u2019t alone. Air India Ltd., the nation\u2019s second-largest carrier, slid to fifth from second in [&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-588882","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\/588882","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=588882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}