{"id":206,"date":"2007-10-30T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T05:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/book-now-for-the-flight-to-nowhere"},"modified":"2007-10-30T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T05:46:55","slug":"book-now-for-the-flight-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/book-now-for-the-flight-to-nowhere","title":{"rendered":"Book now for the flight to nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article2558290.ece\">this article<\/a> from the times online:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AN INDIAN entrepreneur has given a new twist to the concept of low-cost airlines. The passengers boarding his Airbus 300 in Delhi do not expect to go anywhere because it never takes off.<\/p>\n<p>All they want is the chance to know what it is like to sit on a plane, listen to announcements and be waited on by stewardesses bustling up and down the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>In a country where 99% of the population have never experienced air travel, the \u201cvirtual journeys\u201d of Bahadur Chand Gupta, a retired Indian Airlines engineer, have proved a roaring success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article2558290.ece\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See this article from the times online: AN INDIAN entrepreneur has given a new twist to the concept of low-cost airlines. The passengers boarding his Airbus 300 in Delhi do not expect to go anywhere because it never takes off. All they want is the chance to know what it is like to sit on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/book-now-for-the-flight-to-nowhere\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book now for the flight to nowhere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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},"categories":[12,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}