{"id":262822,"date":"2019-03-07T05:21:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262822"},"modified":"2019-03-07T05:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:21:37","slug":"qatar-airways-to-report-second-consecutive-full-year-loss-ceo-akbar-al-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/qatar-airways-to-report-second-consecutive-full-year-loss-ceo-akbar-al-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways to report second consecutive full year loss: CEO Akbar al-Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN: Qatar Airways will report a second consecutive annual lost this year, its chief executive said on Wednesday, blaming higher fuel costs and unfavourable currency exchange rates.<\/p>\n<p>The state-owned airline has rapidly expanded to new destinations since it lost access to 18 Middle East cities in 2017 due to a diplomatic rift between Qatar and some other Arab states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We announced a loss last year and we will announce another loss this year but it doesn&#8217;t mean that Qatar Airways is not going to expand or invest,&#8221; Akbar al-Baker told reporters at the ITB travel fair in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN: Qatar Airways will report a second consecutive annual lost this year, its chief executive said on Wednesday, blaming higher fuel costs and unfavourable currency exchange rates. The state-owned airline has rapidly expanded to new destinations since it lost access to 18 Middle East cities in 2017 due to a diplomatic rift between Qatar and some other Arab states. &#8220;We announced a loss last year and we will announce another loss this year but it doesn&#8217;t mean that Qatar Airways is not going to expand or invest,&#8221; Akbar al-Baker told reporters at the ITB travel fair in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262822","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}