{"id":291322,"date":"2019-09-12T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291322"},"modified":"2019-09-12T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T06:51:23","slug":"cathay-pacifics-august-passengers-down-11-on-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cathay-pacifics-august-passengers-down-11-on-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathay Pacific&#8217;s August passengers down 11% on 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific announced Wednesday its August passenger numbers were down 11.3 percent on last year after the troubled airline faced a backlash from Beijing over Hong Kong&#8217;s heated pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p>The airline, which is based in the financial hub, has had a torrid few weeks after Chinese state media and authorities blasted the company because some of its 27,000 employees had taken part in &#8211; or were sympathetic to &#8211; anti-government protesters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;August was an incredibly challenging month, both for Cathay Pacific and for Hong Kong,&#8221; Cathay&#8217;s chief customer and commercial officer Ronald Lam said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific announced Wednesday its August passenger numbers were down 11.3 percent on last year after the troubled airline faced a backlash from Beijing over Hong Kong&#8217;s heated pro-democracy protests. The airline, which is based in the financial hub, has had a torrid few weeks after Chinese state media and authorities blasted the company because some of its 27,000 employees had taken part in &#8211; or were sympathetic to &#8211; anti-government protesters. &#8220;August was an incredibly challenging month, both for Cathay Pacific and for Hong Kong,&#8221; Cathay&#8217;s chief customer and commercial officer Ronald Lam said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291322","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}