{"id":2941,"date":"2003-03-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/22\/2003-03-22-air-india-gives-in-to-customer-demand-and-drops-inauspicious-thursday-flight\/"},"modified":"2003-03-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-22T12:00:00","slug":"2003-03-22-air-india-gives-in-to-customer-demand-and-drops-inauspicious-thursday-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/22\/2003-03-22-air-india-gives-in-to-customer-demand-and-drops-inauspicious-thursday-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India Gives in to Customer Demand and Drops &#8220;Inauspicious Thursday&#8221; Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.sify.com\/cgibin\/sifynews\/news\/content\/news_fullstory_v2.jsp?article_oid=12944946&#038;category_oid=31504&#038;page_no=1\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>GUWAHTI, INDIA, March 19, 2003: So many people of north east India have refused to fly on Thursdays, Air India has been forced to change its schedule to Sundays. &#8220;It is now official. The flight will be on Sunday,&#8221; said an Air India official here yesterday, much to the relief of the travel agents for whom it had been a big headache. &#8220;There is a long tradition of not doing anything good on Thursday afternoons. So why should one fly abroad?&#8221; asked Powal Barua of Travel Aid. Air India, which initially wanted to drop the flight, has now rescheduled it, giving in to the region&#8217;s overwhelming demand. HPI is interested to learn the reason this area of India considers Thursday inauspicious.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE GUWAHTI, INDIA, March 19, 2003: So many people of north east India have refused to fly on,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}