{"id":331867,"date":"2020-01-31T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=331867"},"modified":"2020-01-31T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T07:39:31","slug":"heres-what-happens-when-an-airline-opens-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/heres-what-happens-when-an-airline-opens-a-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>As restaurant concepts go, \u2018quick airplane food\u2019 isn\u2019t an obvious winner. But Santan is owned and operated by AirAsia Group Bhd, the region\u2019s 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. Over the next few years, it plans to open more than 100 new Santans.\u201cA year ago, when I first conjured the idea of turning&#8230; our in-flight food choices into a fast-food restaurant, everyone thought I was crazy,\u201d says Tony Fernandes, the company\u2019s chief executive officer. \u201cJust as they thought 18 years ago when I said I was starting an airline. Look how that turned out!\u201d<\/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, \u2018quick airplane food\u2019 isn\u2019t an obvious winner. But Santan is owned and operated by AirAsia Group Bhd, the region\u2019s 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 [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331867","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=331867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}