{"id":339939,"date":"2020-03-02T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339939"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:38:07","slug":"emirates-offers-leave-to-staff-as-virus-saps-demand-for-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/emirates-offers-leave-to-staff-as-virus-saps-demand-for-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates offers leave to staff as virus saps demand for travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates Group, which runs the world\u2019s biggest airline by international traffic, is encouraging staff to take leave as the coronavirus outbreak slows demand for travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a measurable slow-down in business across our brands, and a need for flexibility in the way we work,\u201d according to an internal email seen by Bloomberg and confirmed by the Dubai-based airline.<\/p>\n<p>The airline asked employees to consider taking paid or unpaid leave, according to the email.<\/p>\n<p>Emirates halted most flights to China and suspended operations to Iran, the epicenters of the coronavirus. It stopped flying tourists from more than 20 countries to Saudi Arabia, the carrier\u2019s biggest market in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates Group, which runs the world\u2019s biggest airline by international traffic, is encouraging staff to take leave as the coronavirus outbreak slows demand for travel. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen a measurable slow-down in business across our brands, and a need for flexibility in the way we work,\u201d according to an internal email seen by Bloomberg and confirmed by the Dubai-based airline. The airline asked employees to consider taking paid or unpaid leave, according to the email. Emirates halted most flights to China and suspended operations to Iran, the epicenters of the coronavirus. It stopped flying tourists from more than 20 countries to [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339939","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\/339939","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=339939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}