{"id":628649,"date":"2024-01-17T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=628649"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T06:31:24","slug":"trouble-in-the-air-mondays-chaos-reflects-poorly-on-indias-airports-and-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trouble-in-the-air-mondays-chaos-reflects-poorly-on-indias-airports-and-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in the air: Monday\u2019s chaos reflects poorly on India\u2019s airports and airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The irony could not be starker. On the day the Directorate General of Civil Aviation released data showing domestic air passenger traffic at an all-time high of 152 million passengers in 2023, over 100 flights from New Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport were delayed and at least 20 cancelled due to dense fog leading to zero visibility for a few hours. The disruptions at the country\u2019s largest airport had a cascading effect even in other cities. While certain delays cannot be avoided, what was concerning was the absolute lack of preparedness on the part of airlines and airports even though fog is an annual affair during these times in the National Capital Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The irony could not be starker. On the day the Directorate General of Civil Aviation released data showing domestic air passenger traffic at an all-time high of 152 million passengers in 2023, over 100 flights from New Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport were delayed and at least 20 cancelled due to dense fog leading to zero visibility for a few hours. The disruptions at the country\u2019s largest airport had a cascading effect even in other cities. While certain delays cannot be avoided, what was concerning was the absolute lack of preparedness on the part of airlines and airports even though [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628649","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=628649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}