{"id":648575,"date":"2025-10-01T11:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648575"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:29:11","slug":"shashi-tharoor-flags-concerns-over-ai-express-plans-to-curtail-kerala-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shashi-tharoor-flags-concerns-over-ai-express-plans-to-curtail-kerala-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor flags concerns over AI Express plans to curtail Kerala flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha member and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday expressed deep concerns over Air India Express\u2019 planned curtailment of flights connecting various cities in Kerala, saying that Air India \u201cmust stop treating Kerala as an afterthought\u201d. Air India Express is the low cost arm of Tatas-owned Air India Group. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have written to @airindia MD Campbell Wilson to express my deep concern over reports of large-scale cancellations of @airindiaexpress services from Kerala\u2019s airports in the forthcoming winter schedule. According to widely-circulated media accounts, a significant number of flights are being withdrawn from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and Kannur between late October and March,\u201d Tharoor said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha member and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday expressed deep concerns over Air India Express\u2019 planned curtailment of flights connecting various cities in Kerala, saying that Air India \u201cmust stop treating Kerala as an afterthought\u201d. Air India Express is the low cost arm of Tatas-owned Air India Group. \u201cI have written to @airindia MD Campbell Wilson to express my deep concern over reports of large-scale cancellations of @airindiaexpress services from Kerala\u2019s airports in the forthcoming winter schedule. According to widely-circulated media accounts, a significant number of flights are being withdrawn from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and Kannur between [&hellip;]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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648575","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=648575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}