{"id":660228,"date":"2026-04-27T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660228"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:45:43","slug":"govt-looks-at-relief-measures-for-airlines-as-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-looks-at-relief-measures-for-airlines-as-war-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt looks at relief measures for airlines as war continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Govt is considering relief measures for airlines on multiple fronts, with no end in sight to the US-Iran war and airlines complaining of higher operating costs, along with drop in traffic. This week it could clear the way for a Rs 5,000 crore emergency credit line guarantee scheme (ECLGS), that may provide some wind in the sails of some drowning airlines.<\/p>\n<p>The aviation ministry is trying to get the Hotan route in China cleared, that will give relief to Air India on its flights to the west, bypassing Pakistan and saving the loss-making airline millions by avoiding extra fuel burn on the longer route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Govt is considering relief measures for airlines on multiple fronts, with no end in sight to the US-Iran war and airlines complaining of higher operating costs, along with drop in traffic. This week it could clear the way for a Rs 5,000 crore emergency credit line guarantee scheme (ECLGS), that may provide some wind in the sails of some drowning airlines. The aviation ministry is trying to get the Hotan route in China cleared, that will give relief to Air India on its flights to the west, bypassing Pakistan and saving the loss-making airline millions by avoiding extra [&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-660228","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\/660228","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=660228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660230,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660228\/revisions\/660230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}