The coronavirus pandemic has hit the world hard, particularly the travel sector. Flights are grounded, cruise ships are devoid of passengers and gasoline prices are plunging because few people are commuting to work or taking road trips.<\/p>\n
In short, global travel is close to a standstill.<\/p>\n
Leading American aircraft manufacturer company Boeing said this week that it\u2019s gone another month without a single airplane order.<\/p>\n
Delta, one of the prominent American airlines, is retiring its huge 777 aircraft with little evidence that international travel will pick up soon. <\/p>\n
Delta is burning through cash and looking for ways to cut costs. On Thursday, the carrier said it would no longer fly the 777 and other older, less efficient aircraft. It will now shoft focus to the more efficient A330 and A350-900 wide-body planes made by Airbus when international travel picks up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the world hard, particularly the travel sector. Flights are grounded, cruise ships are devoid of passengers and gasoline prices are plunging because few people are commuting to work or taking road trips. In short, global travel is close to a standstill. Leading American aircraft manufacturer company Boeing said this week that it\u2019s gone another month without a single airplane order. Delta, one of the prominent American airlines, is retiring its huge 777 aircraft with little evidence that international travel will pick up soon. Delta is burning through cash and looking for ways to cut costs. […]<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351560","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=351560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}