{"id":355420,"date":"2020-06-04T09:49:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355420"},"modified":"2020-06-04T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:42:02","slug":"global-air-passenger-travel-plunges-94-3-in-april-due-to-covid-19-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-air-passenger-travel-plunges-94-3-in-april-due-to-covid-19-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Global air passenger travel plunges 94.3% in April due to Covid-19: IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global air passenger traffic plunged by 94.3 per cent in April this year as compared to the same month a year ago as the coronavirus pandemic virtually shut down air travel across the world, said global airlines body IATA on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a rate of decline never seen in the history of IATA&#8217;s traffic series, which dates back to 1990,&#8221; said a press release by the organisation that has around 300 airlines as its members. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Passenger demand in April (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs), plunged 94.3 per cent compared to April 2019, as the Covid-19-related travel restrictions virtually shut down domestic and international air travel,&#8221; stated the International Air Transport Association (IATA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global air passenger traffic plunged by 94.3 per cent in April this year as compared to the same month a year ago as the coronavirus pandemic virtually shut down air travel across the world, said global airlines body IATA on Wednesday. &#8220;This is a rate of decline never seen in the history of IATA&#8217;s traffic series, which dates back to 1990,&#8221; said a press release by the organisation that has around 300 airlines as its members. &#8220;Passenger demand in April (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs), plunged 94.3 per cent compared to April 2019, as the Covid-19-related travel restrictions [&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-355420","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\/355420","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=355420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}