{"id":19482,"date":"2022-04-04T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T05:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=19482"},"modified":"2022-04-04T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T05:56:07","slug":"sri-lanka-crisis-air-india-scales-down-flights-to-srilanka-due-to-poor-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/sri-lanka-crisis-air-india-scales-down-flights-to-srilanka-due-to-poor-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Crisis: Air India scales down flights to Srilanka due to poor demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Due to <strong>low demand<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/airindia.com\">Air India<\/a> announced on Sunday that it will reduce its <strong>India- Sri Lanka flights<\/strong> from 16 to 13 per week beginning April 9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Sri Lanka is currently in the grip of its worst economic crisis in its history. \n\nThe public has been suffering for weeks due to long lines for <strong>fuel, cooking gas, and essentials in short supply<\/strong>, as well as long hours of power outages.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220404_111246.jpg\" alt=\"Due to low demand, Air India announced on Sunday that it will reduce its India- Sri Lanka flights from 16 to 13 per week\" class=\"wp-image-19484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220404_111246.jpg 720w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220404_111246-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220404_111246-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;Currently, AI operates 16 flights per week \u2014 daily flights from Delhi and nine flights per week from Chennai,&#8221; according to an Air India spokesperson.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the frequency from Chennai would stay unchanged, the number of flights from Delhi will be reduced from seven to four each week, according to the spokeswoman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Four flights from Delhi instead of seven starting April 9 due to low loads,&#8221; said the spokeswoman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>From <strong>April 8<\/strong> to May 30, AI 283 on the Delhi-Colombo route will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <strong>April 9<\/strong> to May 31, AI 284 on the Colombo-Delhi route will run on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1612378307-4492.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1612378307-4492.jpg 720w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1612378307-4492-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1612378307-4492-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After declaring a statewide public emergency and imposing a 36-hour curfew ahead of a <strong>scheduled anti-government rally <\/strong>over the island nation&#8217;s greatest economic crisis, the Sri Lanka government blocked social media platforms such as <em><strong>WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram on Sunday.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">According to the Colombo Page daily, the measure is intended at stopping crowds from assembling in <strong>Colombo to protest <\/strong>the government's inability to offer relief to the public who are suffering from <strong>shortages of food, basics, fuel, and medicine<\/strong> as a result of hours-long power outages.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and updated <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to low demand, Air India announced on Sunday that it will reduce its India- Sri Lanka flights from 16 to 13 per week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[82,426,5635,5633,5632,5634],"class_list":{"0":"post-19482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-air-india","9":"tag-flights","10":"tag-public-emergency","11":"tag-scales-down","12":"tag-sri-lanka-crises","13":"tag-weekly-frequency"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19487,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482\/revisions\/19487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}