{"id":356730,"date":"2020-06-11T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356730"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:41:06","slug":"virus-slows-dubai-airport-worlds-busiest-for-global-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virus-slows-dubai-airport-worlds-busiest-for-global-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus slows Dubai airport, world&#8217;s busiest for global travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps nowhere is the world&#8217;s lack of flights due to the coronavirus pandemic more clearly felt than at Dubai International Airport, for years the world&#8217;s busiest for international travel.<\/p>\n<p>Its Terminal 3, which sees tens of millions pass through it each year, stood empty and quiet on Wednesday, the once-full departure board showing only seven flights for the sheikhdom&#8217;s long-haul carrier Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Its cavernous walkways, typically chilled to near-Arctic levels \u2014 even with being on the Arabian Peninsula \u2014 felt warm and humid in parts as air conditioners worked at a slower pace. No water rushed down its fountains and some stores and restaurants stood closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps nowhere is the world&#8217;s lack of flights due to the coronavirus pandemic more clearly felt than at Dubai International Airport, for years the world&#8217;s busiest for international travel. Its Terminal 3, which sees tens of millions pass through it each year, stood empty and quiet on Wednesday, the once-full departure board showing only seven flights for the sheikhdom&#8217;s long-haul carrier Emirates. Its cavernous walkways, typically chilled to near-Arctic levels \u2014 even with being on the Arabian Peninsula \u2014 felt warm and humid in parts as air conditioners worked at a slower pace. No water rushed down its fountains and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356730","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}