{"id":33540,"date":"2018-06-08T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=33540"},"modified":"2018-06-08T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:26:01","slug":"indonesia-seeks-direct-flight-connectivity-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indonesia-seeks-direct-flight-connectivity-with-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia seeks direct flight connectivity with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia today pitched for direct flight connectivity from India to support the rising outbound tourist traffic as no Indian carrier flies to the Southeast Asian country presently.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s national carrier Garuda started operations to Mumbai from 2016, ambassador of Indonesia to India Sidharto Reza Soryodipuro said. \u201cThere is a need to enhance air connectivity between the two countries. Although Indonesia has flights into India, no Indian carriers fly to that country\u201d, he said at a session at the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here today.<\/p>\n<p>He said that this was necessary to support the rising number of Indian tourists travelling to that country. Last year, nearly five lakh Indian tourists visited Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Soryodipuro also said that there was zero maritime connectivity between India and Indonesia. Indian ships go either via Singapore, Malaysia or Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is no direct shipping connectivity, time taken for sending cargo is more and is also expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia today pitched for direct flight connectivity from India to support the rising outbound tourist traffic as no Indian carrier flies to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33542,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33540\/revisions\/33542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}