{"id":297191,"date":"2019-10-21T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297191"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:43:21","slug":"opinion-worlds-longest-flights-arent-meant-for-cattle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-worlds-longest-flights-arent-meant-for-cattle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | World\u2019s longest flights aren\u2019t meant for cattle class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question about Qantas Airways Ltd.\u2019s plans to start 20-hour direct flights from Sydney to London and New York isn\u2019t why any passenger would want to take the route \u2014 it\u2019s why any carrier would want to offer them.<\/p>\n<p>For all the hardship of spending a day cooped up with the body odors of a couple of hundred other humans, long-haul flying isn\u2019t a particularly attractive business for airlines, either.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas\u2019s international unit made just 10.7 Australian cents of revenue per seat, per kilometer flown in its last fiscal year through June, of which 10.3 Australian cents was eaten up on operating costs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question about Qantas Airways Ltd.\u2019s plans to start 20-hour direct flights from Sydney to London and New York isn\u2019t why any passenger would want to take the route \u2014 it\u2019s why any carrier would want to offer them. For all the hardship of spending a day cooped up with the body odors of a couple of hundred other humans, long-haul flying isn\u2019t a particularly attractive business for airlines, either. Qantas\u2019s international unit made just 10.7 Australian cents of revenue per seat, per kilometer flown in its last fiscal year through June, of which 10.3 Australian cents was eaten up [&hellip;]<\/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-297191","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\/297191","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=297191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}