{"id":653124,"date":"2025-11-19T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653124"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:51:58","slug":"geopolitical-flare-ups-ai-crash-tariff-shocks-to-dampen-indias-air-travel-demand-in-fy26-icra-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/geopolitical-flare-ups-ai-crash-tariff-shocks-to-dampen-indias-air-travel-demand-in-fy26-icra-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Geopolitical flare-ups, AI crash, tariff shocks to dampen India\u2019s air travel demand in FY26, ICRA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s air travel demand is expected to grow only modestly in FY26 as a series of external shocks weigh on sentiment, ICRA said in a report released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rating agency, which maintained a Stable outlook on the aviation sector, driven by expectations of modest growth in domestic air passenger traffic in FY2026 at 4-6%.<\/p>\n<p>According to ICRA, growth has been tempered by \u201ccross-border escalations,\u201d the \u201caircraft accident tragedy in June 2025,\u201d and \u201ctrade headwinds stemming from US tariffs,\u201d all of which have added uncertainty for carriers and passengers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s air travel demand is expected to grow only modestly in FY26 as a series of external shocks weigh on sentiment, ICRA said in a report released Tuesday. The rating agency, which maintained a Stable outlook on the aviation sector, driven by expectations of modest growth in domestic air passenger traffic in FY2026 at 4-6%. According to ICRA, growth has been tempered by \u201ccross-border escalations,\u201d the \u201caircraft accident tragedy in June 2025,\u201d and \u201ctrade headwinds stemming from US tariffs,\u201d all of which have added uncertainty for carriers and passengers.<\/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-653124","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\/653124","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=653124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}