{"id":358444,"date":"2020-06-20T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358444"},"modified":"2020-06-20T12:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T06:58:58","slug":"cargo-on-seat-flight-to-cut-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cargo-on-seat-flight-to-cut-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo-on-seat flight to cut losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An AirAsia flight from Calcutta took off for Chennai on Thursday night, with pilots and cabin crew and seats almost full. Only, instead of passengers, there were cartons and containers. <\/p>\n<p>This was the airline\u2019s first cargo-on-seat flight, a new model approved by the civil aviation ministry to allow airlines to make up for some of their losses inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, many airlines are converting passenger planes into cargo aircraft on certain routes because there are not enough passengers to make a flight viable.<\/p>\n<p>The Airbus A-320 aircraft of AirAsia, which has 180 seats for passengers, carried eight tonnes of cargo, about half of which was kept on passenger seats and the rest in the belly space, airline officials said. The cargo contained fertilised fish eggs, litchis and mails and parcels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AirAsia flight from Calcutta took off for Chennai on Thursday night, with pilots and cabin crew and seats almost full. Only, instead of passengers, there were cartons and containers. This was the airline\u2019s first cargo-on-seat flight, a new model approved by the civil aviation ministry to allow airlines to make up for some of their losses inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, many airlines are converting passenger planes into cargo aircraft on certain routes because there are not enough passengers to make a flight viable. The Airbus A-320 aircraft of AirAsia, which has 180 seats for passengers, carried eight [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358444","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=358444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}