{"id":340485,"date":"2020-03-05T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340485"},"modified":"2020-03-05T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:25:04","slug":"uk-airline-flybe-collapses-as-virus-hits-flights-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-airline-flybe-collapses-as-virus-hits-flights-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"UK airline Flybe collapses as virus hits flights worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: One of Britain&#8217;s biggest airlines, Flybe, collapsed Thursday with all its flights grounded, the company said, as the coronavirus epidemic takes a heavy toll on airlines around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Flybe&#8217;s website said the company had entered administration and could not arrange alternative flights for its passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All flights have been grounded and the UK business has ceased trading with immediate effect,&#8221; said the airline, which avoided going bust in January only after being granted a tax holiday by the UK government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: One of Britain&#8217;s biggest airlines, Flybe, collapsed Thursday with all its flights grounded, the company said, as the coronavirus epidemic takes a heavy toll on airlines around the world. A statement on Flybe&#8217;s website said the company had entered administration and could not arrange alternative flights for its passengers. &#8220;All flights have been grounded and the UK business has ceased trading with immediate effect,&#8221; said the airline, which avoided going bust in January only after being granted a tax holiday by the UK government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-340485","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\/340485","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}