{"id":347316,"date":"2020-04-18T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T05:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347316"},"modified":"2020-04-18T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T06:14:24","slug":"airasia-malaysia-airlines-merger-an-option-as-coronavirus-hits-industry-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-malaysia-airlines-merger-an-option-as-coronavirus-hits-industry-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia, Malaysia Airlines merger an option as coronavirus hits industry &#8211; minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merging money-losing state carrier Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAB) with budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd is one of the options to &#8220;save&#8221; them as the coronavirus crisis batters the industry, Malaysia&#8217;s second-most senior minister told Reuters on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The pandemic that has killed at least 143,744 people around the world has led to lockdowns in many countries, brought air travel to a virtual halt and left airlines battling for survival. <\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Azmin Ali, Malaysia&#8217;s minister of international trade and industry and the government&#8217;s designated second-in-command, said deliberations would soon take place on various options to help out the country&#8217;s airline industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merging money-losing state carrier Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAB) with budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd is one of the options to &#8220;save&#8221; them as the coronavirus crisis batters the industry, Malaysia&#8217;s second-most senior minister told Reuters on Friday. The pandemic that has killed at least 143,744 people around the world has led to lockdowns in many countries, brought air travel to a virtual halt and left airlines battling for survival. Mohamed Azmin Ali, Malaysia&#8217;s minister of international trade and industry and the government&#8217;s designated second-in-command, said deliberations would soon take place on various options to help out the country&#8217;s airline industry.<\/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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347316","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=347316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}