{"id":97436,"date":"2017-01-19T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T11:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=97436"},"modified":"2017-01-19T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T11:42:06","slug":"rcs-scheme-to-increase-number-of-operational-airports-to-118-from-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rcs-scheme-to-increase-number-of-operational-airports-to-118-from-75\/","title":{"rendered":"RCS scheme to increase number of operational airports to 118 from 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s Regional connectivity scheme to increase total number of operational airports in the country to 118 airports, says aviation minister Jayant Sinha. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the first phase of bidding for airports, the UDAN scheme is going to be a game changer, as it will increase the total number of operational airport in the country to 118 from 75 now,&#8221; said minister of state of civil aviation Jayant Sinha. <\/p>\n<p>Sinha said that they received bids for 11 bidders for 43 new airports and offering services to 190 UDAN routes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A number of bidders are companies, who are starting scheduled flights for the first time,&#8221; said Sinha. <\/p>\n<p>He, however, refused to share the names of the companies because they are inviting counter bids for all the bids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s Regional connectivity scheme to increase total number of operational airports in the country to 118 airports, says aviation minister Jayant Sinha. &#8220;Based on the first phase of bidding for airports, the UDAN scheme is going to be a game changer, as it will increase the total number of operational airport in the country to 118 from 75 now,&#8221; said minister of state of civil aviation Jayant Sinha. Sinha said that they received bids for 11 bidders for 43 new airports and offering services to 190 UDAN routes. &#8220;A number of bidders are companies, who are starting scheduled flights [&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-97436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97436","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=97436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}