{"id":89327,"date":"2019-05-25T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89327"},"modified":"2019-05-25T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:59:01","slug":"monthly-inbound-flights-reduced-by-300-opposition-leader-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/25\/monthly-inbound-flights-reduced-by-300-opposition-leader-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly inbound flights reduced by 300: Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said&nbsp;that the number of monthly inbound flights at the Bandaranaike International Airport has been reduced by 300. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making a statement in parliament, he said artistes including film directors&nbsp;who had made movies for Vesak and those who were planning to put up pandals and other decorations for Vesak have also been affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, Mr. Rajapaksa said it was vital to have an overall economic management package to help those economically affected by the current crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Easter Sunday attacks have delivered a blow to the economy other than killing a large number of people. The SMEs, self-employed, bus owners and three-wheeler owners have been affected as a result of this tragedy. Some have found themselves in a a fresh crisis as they are unable to pay loan installments. Fines have been added to the debt installments,\u201d Mr. Rajapaksa said.&nbsp;<em><strong>(Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said&nbsp;that the number of monthly inbound flights at the Bandaranaike International Airport has been reduced by 300. &nbsp; Making a statement in parliament, he said artistes including film directors&nbsp;who had made movies for Vesak and those who were planning to put up pandals and other decorations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}