{"id":350674,"date":"2020-05-11T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350674"},"modified":"2020-05-11T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:55:18","slug":"emirates-predicts-18-month-lull-in-air-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/emirates-predicts-18-month-lull-in-air-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates predicts 18-month lull in air demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf aviation giant Emirates said Sunday it would take at least 18 months for travel demand to return to &#8220;a semblance of normality&#8221;, despite reporting bumper pre-pandemic profits.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubai carrier, the largest in the Middle East, posted 1.1 billion dirhams ($288 million) in net profit for the financial year ending March, up from $237 million the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 32nd straight year of profit for Emirates, which operates a fleet of 115 Airbus A-380 superjumbos and 155 Boeing-777 airliners.<\/p>\n<p>It had suspended flights on March 22 before resuming some services two weeks later. <\/p>\n<p>Emirates Group chief Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said the airline had performed strongly in the first 11 months of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf aviation giant Emirates said Sunday it would take at least 18 months for travel demand to return to &#8220;a semblance of normality&#8221;, despite reporting bumper pre-pandemic profits. The Dubai carrier, the largest in the Middle East, posted 1.1 billion dirhams ($288 million) in net profit for the financial year ending March, up from $237 million the previous year. It was the 32nd straight year of profit for Emirates, which operates a fleet of 115 Airbus A-380 superjumbos and 155 Boeing-777 airliners. It had suspended flights on March 22 before resuming some services two weeks later. Emirates Group chief Sheikh [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350674","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\/350674","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=350674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}