{"id":322122,"date":"2020-04-14T07:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322122"},"modified":"2020-04-14T07:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:43:21","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-all-domestic-international-flights-to-remain-suspended-till-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-lockdown-all-domestic-international-flights-to-remain-suspended-till-may-3\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Lockdown: All domestic, international flights to remain suspended till May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_301770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301770\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-301770\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/plane.jpg 766w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/plane-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/plane-696x421.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/plane-695x420.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-301770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All international and domestic commercial passenger flights will remain suspended till May 3, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after PM Modi announced this morning that the lockdown across the country will be extended till May 3 to fight the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, \u201cDrawing inspiration from &#8220;WE THE PEOPLE&#8221; &amp; samoohik Shakti of all Indians who have persevered despite hardships, PM Modi delivers another visionary &amp; statesman like address to the nation. Decision to extend the lockdown till 3 May is in best interest of the country &amp; our people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere were good reasons for the Lockdown to be extended till 3rd May. We can consider lifting restrictions on both domestic &amp; international flights thereafter. I understand the problems being faced by people who need to travel &amp; request them to bear with us,\u201d Puri added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll domestic and international scheduled Airlines operations shall remain suspended till 11.59 pm of 3rd May 2020,\u201d the Ministry tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Domestic and international commercial passenger flights were suspended from March 25 to April 14.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All international and domestic commercial passenger flights will remain suspended till May 3, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Tuesday. This came after PM Modi announced this morning that the lockdown across the country will be extended till May 3 to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, \u201cDrawing inspiration from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322122"}],"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=322122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322123,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322122\/revisions\/322123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}