{"id":618139,"date":"2023-11-18T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=618139"},"modified":"2023-11-18T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T08:03:03","slug":"indigo-first-desi-airline-to-have-over-2000-flights-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-first-desi-airline-to-have-over-2000-flights-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo first desi airline to have over 2,000 flights daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IndiGo has become the first Indian carrier to have over 2,000 scheduled or planned flightsdaily. The Rahul Bhatia-founded airline, which started flying on August 4, 2006, had in December 2017 become the first Indian carrier to operate 1,000 flights in a day, with the budget carrier taking over 11 years to reach that milestone. The second 1,000 came much faster in just six years, despite a bitter fallout between the airline\u2019s two founder-promoters and<br \/>\nthen Covid in this period.<\/p>\n<p>Theairline has been able to benefit from the tailwind of the fact that India has seen the fastest recovery of air traffic, especially domestic, after the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IndiGo has become the first Indian carrier to have over 2,000 scheduled or planned flightsdaily. The Rahul Bhatia-founded airline, which started flying on August 4, 2006, had in December 2017 become the first Indian carrier to operate 1,000 flights in a day, with the budget carrier taking over 11 years to reach that milestone. The second 1,000 came much faster in just six years, despite a bitter fallout between the airline\u2019s two founder-promoters and then Covid in this period. Theairline has been able to benefit from the tailwind of the fact that India has seen the fastest recovery [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618139","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=618139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}