{"id":310676,"date":"2019-03-19T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310676"},"modified":"2019-03-19T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:01:03","slug":"government-calls-emergency-meet-as-jet-airways-grounds-more-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-calls-emergency-meet-as-jet-airways-grounds-more-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Calls emergency meet as Jet Airways grounds more flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306135 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight--560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/jet-airways-flight-.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday directed his ministry\u2019s secretary to hold an emergency meeting on the grounding of flights by Jet Airways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The development came after the airline announced to ground more of its aircraft as it battles intensifying competition and liquidity crunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDirected Secretary, @MoCA_GoI to hold an emergency meeting on grounding of flights by Jet Airways, Advance bookings, Cancellation, Refunds and Safety issues, if any. Asked him to get a report on Jet compliance issues immediately from DGCA,\u201d Prabhu tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday said in a statement that Jet Airways is currently operating only 41 aircraft, just a third of its original fleet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to its website, the airline has a fleet of\u00a0119 planes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday directed his ministry\u2019s secretary to hold an emergency meeting on the grounding of flights by Jet Airways. The development came after the airline announced to ground more of its aircraft as it battles intensifying competition and liquidity crunch. \u201cDirected Secretary, @MoCA_GoI to hold an emergency meeting on grounding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2951,4975],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310677,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310676\/revisions\/310677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}