{"id":659407,"date":"2026-03-17T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659407"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:18:50","slug":"chandigarh-airport-will-examine-air-traffic-for-point-of-call-tag-union-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chandigarh-airport-will-examine-air-traffic-for-point-of-call-tag-union-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandigarh airport will examine air traffic for \u2018point of call\u2019 tag: Union minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha member Satnam Singh Sandhu on Monday highlighted the absence of the \u201cpoint of call\u201d designation for the Chandigarh International Airport that has only two international flights \u2014 to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Responding to his question in Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Budget Session, Union civil aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu said the government would examine the traffic generated by the UT airport for designating it as a \u201cpoint of call\u201d which is a pre-requisite for international airlines to operate from a particular airport to global destinations.<\/p>\n<p>He said while designating airports in India as \u201cpoint of call\u201d for international flights, the Union government is encouraging Indian carriers to secure advantage of international passenger traffic and ensuring airports at India\u2019s metropolitan cities become international aviation hubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha member Satnam Singh Sandhu on Monday highlighted the absence of the \u201cpoint of call\u201d designation for the Chandigarh International Airport that has only two international flights \u2014 to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Responding to his question in Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Budget Session, Union civil aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu said the government would examine the traffic generated by the UT airport for designating it as a \u201cpoint of call\u201d which is a pre-requisite for international airlines to operate from a particular airport to global destinations. He said while designating airports in India as \u201cpoint of call\u201d [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659407","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=659407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}