{"id":342637,"date":"2020-03-20T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342637"},"modified":"2020-03-20T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T05:06:33","slug":"global-airlines-need-up-to-200-billion-in-emergency-aid-says-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-airlines-need-up-to-200-billion-in-emergency-aid-says-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Global airlines need up to $200 billion in emergency aid, says IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to $200 billion is needed to rescue the world&#8217;s airlines during the coronavirus crisis, the global aviation association said Thursday, appealing especially to African and Middle Eastern countries to provide emergency assistance. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Support measures are urgently needed,&#8221; the International Air Transport Association said in a statement, adding that &#8220;on a global basis, IATA estimates that emergency aid of up to $200 billion is required&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Airlines worldwide face an unprecedented existential threat as the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 9,000 people around the world, shuts down global travel. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is the top priority of governments,&#8221; IATA chief Alexandre de Juniac said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to $200 billion is needed to rescue the world&#8217;s airlines during the coronavirus crisis, the global aviation association said Thursday, appealing especially to African and Middle Eastern countries to provide emergency assistance. &#8220;Support measures are urgently needed,&#8221; the International Air Transport Association said in a statement, adding that &#8220;on a global basis, IATA estimates that emergency aid of up to $200 billion is required&#8221;. Airlines worldwide face an unprecedented existential threat as the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 9,000 people around the world, shuts down global travel. &#8220;Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is the top priority of [&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-342637","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\/342637","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=342637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}