{"id":308516,"date":"2020-01-03T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T05:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308516"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T05:51:47","slug":"opinion-what-happens-when-an-airline-opens-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-what-happens-when-an-airline-opens-a-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | What happens when an airline opens a restaurant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur has more than 100 restaurants, cafes, and snack stands to meet every kind of craving. As of this month, that list includes a novel and seemingly quixotic option: Santan, a cafe that serves airplane food in cardboard boxes.As restaurant concepts go, &#8216;quick airplane food&#8217; isn&#8217;t an obvious winner.<\/p>\n<p>But Santan is owned and operated by AirAsia Group Bhd, the region&#8217;s most successful budget airline. With profits declining in the industry, the company is looking to diversify \u2014 it wants to reduce flying from 80% of its business to about 40% by 2025 \u2014 and earthbound airplane food is central to its vision.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few years, it plans to open more than 100 new Santans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mid Valley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur has more than 100 restaurants, cafes, and snack stands to meet every kind of craving. As of this month, that list includes a novel and seemingly quixotic option: Santan, a cafe that serves airplane food in cardboard boxes.As restaurant concepts go, &#8216;quick airplane food&#8217; isn&#8217;t an obvious winner. But Santan is owned and operated by AirAsia Group Bhd, the region&#8217;s most successful budget airline. With profits declining in the industry, the company is looking to diversify \u2014 it wants to reduce flying from 80% of its business to about 40% by 2025 \u2014 [&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-308516","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\/308516","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=308516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}