{"id":659931,"date":"2026-04-08T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659931"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:20:09","slug":"over-10000-west-asia-flights-of-indian-carriers-cancelled-since-feb-28-ai-hikes-fuel-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/over-10000-west-asia-flights-of-indian-carriers-cancelled-since-feb-28-ai-hikes-fuel-surcharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 10,000 West Asia flights of Indian carriers cancelled since Feb 28; AI hikes fuel surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian airlines have cancelled over 10,000 flights to West Asia since the start of the US-Iran war on Feb 28. Aviation ministry joint secretary Asangba Chuba Ao said Tuesday Indian airlines on an average had 300-350 daily flights to West Asia, a number that is now down to 80-90. Apart from monetary losses caused by this decline, airlines now have to take much longer routes to and from the west at a time when aviation turbine fuel prices (ATF) prices have increased globally.<\/p>\n<p>Chuba Ao said: \u201cThe aviation ministry is actively working with all stakeholders&#8230; exploring all means of who we can support the industry, especially airlines and to bring down the cost which eventually will be passed on to consumers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian airlines have cancelled over 10,000 flights to West Asia since the start of the US-Iran war on Feb 28. Aviation ministry joint secretary Asangba Chuba Ao said Tuesday Indian airlines on an average had 300-350 daily flights to West Asia, a number that is now down to 80-90. Apart from monetary losses caused by this decline, airlines now have to take much longer routes to and from the west at a time when aviation turbine fuel prices (ATF) prices have increased globally. Chuba Ao said: \u201cThe aviation ministry is actively working with all stakeholders&#8230; exploring all means [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659931","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=659931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}