{"id":271051,"date":"2019-04-25T05:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T05:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=271051"},"modified":"2019-04-25T05:31:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T05:31:01","slug":"etihad-airways-becomes-1st-major-airline-to-operate-plastic-free-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/etihad-airways-becomes-1st-major-airline-to-operate-plastic-free-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad Airways becomes 1st major airline to operate plastic-free flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The UAE&#8217;s flag carrier Etihad Airways has become the first airline in the Gulf region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on board, in a bid to raise awareness about pollution on Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Abu Dhabi-based national airline of the UAE, the flight EY484 landed in Brisbane on April 22, Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone flight is part of Etihad&#8217;s pledge to reduce single-use plastic usage by 80 % not just in-flight, but across the entire organisation by the end of 2022, the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The UAE&#8217;s flag carrier Etihad Airways has become the first airline in the Gulf region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on board, in a bid to raise awareness about pollution on Earth Day. According to the Abu Dhabi-based national airline of the UAE, the flight EY484 landed in Brisbane on April 22, Earth Day. The milestone flight is part of Etihad&#8217;s pledge to reduce single-use plastic usage by 80 % not just in-flight, but across the entire organisation by the end of 2022, the airline said in a statement.<\/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-271051","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\/271051","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=271051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}