{"id":345811,"date":"2020-04-07T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T06:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345811"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:39:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:09:27","slug":"covid-19-as-demand-falls-singapore-to-close-changi-airports-terminal-2-for-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-as-demand-falls-singapore-to-close-changi-airports-terminal-2-for-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: As demand falls, Singapore to close Changi Airport&#8217;s terminal 2 for 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: Singapore will suspend operations of Changi Airport&#8217;s terminal 2 for 18 months from the beginning of next month following a sharp drop in passenger traffic due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Changi Airport is Singapore&#8217;s main civilian airport and is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. It has four terminals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will save on running costs for the airport operator, retail tenants, airlines and ground handlers,&#8221; Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan told Parliament on Monday, after announcing plans to halt operations at the airport&#8217;s terminal 2 from May 1.<\/p>\n<p>One terminal is enough to handle the current traffic at the airport, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: Singapore will suspend operations of Changi Airport&#8217;s terminal 2 for 18 months from the beginning of next month following a sharp drop in passenger traffic due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Changi Airport is Singapore&#8217;s main civilian airport and is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. It has four terminals. &#8220;We will save on running costs for the airport operator, retail tenants, airlines and ground handlers,&#8221; Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan told Parliament on Monday, after announcing plans to halt operations at the airport&#8217;s terminal 2 from May 1. One terminal is enough to handle the current [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345811","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\/345811","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=345811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}