{"id":74589,"date":"2016-07-01T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=74589"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:37:47","slug":"government-a-step-closer-to-making-rs-2500-flight-for-aam-aadmi-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-a-step-closer-to-making-rs-2500-flight-for-aam-aadmi-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Government a step closer to making Rs 2,500 flight for aam aadmi a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Modi government today decided to provide underserved airports with minimum three subsidized flights a week in an attempt to fly 350 million more Indians in a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The airline providing regional flights will have to connect underserved airports with minimum 3 flights a week and maximum 7 flights a week. Anything beyond that will not fetch any subsidy,&#8221; said aviation secretary R N Choubey.<\/p>\n<p>Also, not all seats in the flight will be on subsidy. &#8220;Smaller aircraft with 13 seats will have 9 seats under subsidy and 80 seater aircraft will have 40 seats under subsidy,&#8221; said Choubey.<\/p>\n<p>The airline operating regional flights will be allowed to sell the rest of the seats at the market price. &#8220;We will not regulate fares on the seats without subsidy,&#8221; said Choubey.<\/p>\n<p>The government plans to immediately connect about 30 airports in the country that has airport infrastructure but no flights as of today.<\/p>\n<p>Under the scheme, the government will provide fares at RS 2,500 per 500 km and the rest will be funded through a government subsidy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modi government today decided to provide underserved airports with minimum three subsidized flights a week in an attempt to fly 350 million more Indians in a year. &#8220;The airline providing regional flights will have to connect underserved airports with minimum 3 flights a week and maximum 7 flights a week. Anything beyond that will not fetch any subsidy,&#8221; said aviation secretary R N Choubey. Also, not all seats in the flight will be on subsidy. &#8220;Smaller aircraft with 13 seats will have 9 seats under subsidy and 80 seater aircraft will have 40 seats under subsidy,&#8221; said Choubey. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74589","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}