{"id":650989,"date":"2025-11-01T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650989"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:02:20","slug":"the-longest-and-shortest-flights-in-indian-aviation-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-longest-and-shortest-flights-in-indian-aviation-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The longest and shortest flights in Indian aviation this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the page turned from the Summer to the Winter schedule on 26 October 2025, the airline network&#8217;s focus shifted towards winter destinations from the summer ones. Port Blair is at the forefront with a 20% increase in capacity to the destination. Port Blair is also the place which hosts the longest domestic flight in India.<\/p>\n<p>While traditionally the longest flight has been Delhi-Port Blair from Air India, the group is more than doubling down its presence on the sector with 21 weekly flights \u2014 14 operated by Air India and 7 by subsidiary Air India Express. Delhi-Port Blair is a distance of 2,481 km. IndiGo, the largest carrier in India, does not operate on this sector, which was an Air India monopoly, until its own subsidiary joined in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the page turned from the Summer to the Winter schedule on 26 October 2025, the airline network&#8217;s focus shifted towards winter destinations from the summer ones. Port Blair is at the forefront with a 20% increase in capacity to the destination. Port Blair is also the place which hosts the longest domestic flight in India. While traditionally the longest flight has been Delhi-Port Blair from Air India, the group is more than doubling down its presence on the sector with 21 weekly flights \u2014 14 operated by Air India and 7 by subsidiary Air India Express. Delhi-Port Blair is [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650989","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=650989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}