{"id":321423,"date":"2020-03-23T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321423"},"modified":"2020-03-23T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:16:08","slug":"all-domestic-flights-suspended-from-tuesday-midnight-to-contain-coronavirus-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/all-domestic-flights-suspended-from-tuesday-midnight-to-contain-coronavirus-government\/","title":{"rendered":"All Domestic flights suspended from Tuesday midnight to contain Coronavirus: Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314014 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/airlines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/airlines.jpg 541w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/airlines-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/airlines-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/>The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday announced that no domestic commercial airlines will fly from Tuesday midnight in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe operations of domestic schedule commercial airlines shall cease operations with effective from the mid night 23.59 IST hours on 24\/3\/2020,\u201d the Ministry said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Airlines have to plan operations so as to land at their destination before the given time on the given date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAirlines have to plan operations so as to land at their destination before 2359 hours on 24\/3\/2020. The restrictions, however, shall not apply to cargo-carrying flights,&#8221; it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India has already suspended international flights for a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The number of coronavirus cases in country rose to 433 on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, the government also announced the cancellation of all passenger trains till March 31.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday announced that no domestic commercial airlines will fly from Tuesday midnight in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19. \u201cThe operations of domestic schedule commercial airlines shall cease operations with effective from the mid night 23.59 IST hours on 24\/3\/2020,\u201d the Ministry said in a statement. Airlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,2959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321423"}],"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=321423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321424,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321423\/revisions\/321424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}