{"id":349775,"date":"2020-05-06T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349775"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:53:25","slug":"leaving-middle-seats-vacant-for-social-distancing-will-increase-cost-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/leaving-middle-seats-vacant-for-social-distancing-will-increase-cost-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving middle-seats vacant for social distancing will increase cost: IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) came out in support of face coverings for passengers and masks for the crew to &#8220;add extra layers of protection&#8221; while onboard aircraft. The association, however, said it does not recommend airliners to restrict the use of the &#8216;middle seat&#8217; to create social distancing while onboard aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Evidence suggests that the risk of transmission onboard aircraft is low. Mask-wearing by passengers and crew will reduce the already low risk while avoiding the dramatic cost increases to air travel that onboard social distancing measures would bring middle seats&#8217; empty,&#8221; IATA said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association (IATA) came out in support of face coverings for passengers and masks for the crew to &#8220;add extra layers of protection&#8221; while onboard aircraft. The association, however, said it does not recommend airliners to restrict the use of the &#8216;middle seat&#8217; to create social distancing while onboard aircraft. &#8220;Evidence suggests that the risk of transmission onboard aircraft is low. Mask-wearing by passengers and crew will reduce the already low risk while avoiding the dramatic cost increases to air travel that onboard social distancing measures would bring middle seats&#8217; empty,&#8221; IATA said in a statement on [&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-349775","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\/349775","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=349775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}