{"id":306106,"date":"2019-12-18T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T04:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306106"},"modified":"2019-12-18T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T05:00:45","slug":"seven-planes-of-cash-strapped-hong-kong-airline-impounded-for-non-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/seven-planes-of-cash-strapped-hong-kong-airline-impounded-for-non-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven planes of cash-strapped Hong Kong Airline impounded for non-payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cash-strapped carrier Hong Kong Airlines has had seven idle planes impounded at the city&#8217;s airport after it failed to make payments, authorities said Tuesday, with the firm hit by a plunge in tourist numbers caused by long-running protests. <\/p>\n<p>The Airport Authority announced the seized planes under an ordinance that addresses overdue charges. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Airport Authority understands that the detained aircraft have not been operated for passenger service in recent months,&#8221; a spokesman said. <\/p>\n<p>The rule allows the city&#8217;s air regulators to impound planes for non-payment of charges and that aircraft can be sold after 60 days if the account is not settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash-strapped carrier Hong Kong Airlines has had seven idle planes impounded at the city&#8217;s airport after it failed to make payments, authorities said Tuesday, with the firm hit by a plunge in tourist numbers caused by long-running protests. The Airport Authority announced the seized planes under an ordinance that addresses overdue charges. &#8220;The Airport Authority understands that the detained aircraft have not been operated for passenger service in recent months,&#8221; a spokesman said. The rule allows the city&#8217;s air regulators to impound planes for non-payment of charges and that aircraft can be sold after 60 days if the account is [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306106","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=306106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}