{"id":652417,"date":"2025-11-13T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652417"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:56:52","slug":"pib-dismisses-report-on-indias-financial-plan-to-revive-ghost-airports-calls-it-baseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pib-dismisses-report-on-indias-financial-plan-to-revive-ghost-airports-calls-it-baseless\/","title":{"rendered":"PIB dismisses report on India&#8217;s financial plan to revive ghost airports, calls it &#8216;baseless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Information Bureau\u2019s Fact Check (PIB Fact Check) unit has categorically denied a media report claiming that India plans to offer financial incentives to airlines for reviving dormant or underutilised airports, calling the story \u201cfake, baseless, and factually incorrect.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a post published late Wednesday night, PIB Fact Check dismissed the report \u2014 originally carried by Bloomberg \u2014 which had quoted anonymous sources saying that the government was preparing a new subsidy framework to support operations at idle airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Information Bureau\u2019s Fact Check (PIB Fact Check) unit has categorically denied a media report claiming that India plans to offer financial incentives to airlines for reviving dormant or underutilised airports, calling the story \u201cfake, baseless, and factually incorrect.\u201d In a post published late Wednesday night, PIB Fact Check dismissed the report \u2014 originally carried by Bloomberg \u2014 which had quoted anonymous sources saying that the government was preparing a new subsidy framework to support operations at idle airports.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652417","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=652417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}