{"id":29629,"date":"2020-04-22T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=29629"},"modified":"2020-10-07T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:18:12","slug":"lifeline-udan-flights-support-covid-19-fight-by-delivering-over-541-tons-of-medical-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/lifeline-udan-flights-support-covid-19-fight-by-delivering-over-541-tons-of-medical-cargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeline Udan flights support Covid-19 fight by delivering over 541 tons of medical cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018Lifeline Udan\u2019 flights are being operated by MoCA to transport essential medical cargo to remote parts of the country to support India\u2019s war against COVID-19. 316 flights have been operated under Lifeline Udan by Air India, Alliance Air, IAF and private carriers during Covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>196 of these flights have been operated by Air India and Alliance Air. Cargo transported till date is around 541.33 tons.&nbsp;Aerial distance covered by Lifeline Udan flights till date is over 3,14,965 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air India and IAF collaborated primarily for J&amp;K, Ladakh, North-East and other island regions. Light-weight and voluminous products like masks, gloves and other consumables, that consume relatively larger storage space on the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lifeline Udan flights have received excellent support from State Governments and Domestic Cargo Operators SpiceJet, Blue Dart and Indigo are operating cargo flights on a commercial basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spicejet operated 447 cargo flights from 24 March to 20 April 2020 covering a distance of 6,64,675 km and carrying 3516 tons of cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cargo air-bridge established with East Asia for transportation of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and COVID-19 relief material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Lifeline Udan\u2019 flights are being operated by MoCA to transport essential medical cargo to remote parts of the country to support India\u2019s war against COVID-19. 316 flights have been operated under Lifeline Udan by Air India, Alliance Air, IAF and private carriers during Covid-19 lockdown. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points 196 of these flights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":29630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29631,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629\/revisions\/29631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}