{"id":13843,"date":"2015-05-07T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=13843"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:52:39","slug":"emirates-airline-witnesses-expansion-and-40-jump-in-net-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/emirates-airline-witnesses-expansion-and-40-jump-in-net-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates airline witnesses expansion and 40% jump in net profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The Middle East&#8217;s biggest airline, Emirates, says its profit jumped 40 per cent during the last fiscal year, driven by rapid expansion and helped by a drop in fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p>The Dubai government-owned carrier said Thursday it earned 4.56 billion dirhams ($1.24 billion) compared with the 3.25 billion dirhams ($885.6 million) it earned a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Sales for the year rose seven per cent to 88.82 billion dirhams ($24.2 billion). <\/p>\n<p>Emirates is expanding rapidly with a primarily wide-body fleet that funnels long-haul travelers through its fast-expanding hub in Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The Middle East&#8217;s biggest airline, Emirates, says its profit jumped 40 per cent during the last fiscal year, driven by rapid expansion and helped by a drop in fuel prices. The Dubai government-owned carrier said Thursday it earned 4.56 billion dirhams ($1.24 billion) compared with the 3.25 billion dirhams ($885.6 million) it earned a year earlier. Sales for the year rose seven per cent to 88.82 billion dirhams ($24.2 billion). Emirates is expanding rapidly with a primarily wide-body fleet that funnels long-haul travelers through its fast-expanding hub in Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}