{"id":362716,"date":"2020-07-14T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362716"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:25:18","slug":"asia-pacific-airlines-to-post-29-bn-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/asia-pacific-airlines-to-post-29-bn-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Pacific airlines to post $29 bn losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Monday said that airlines in the Asia-Pacific region will be the hardest hit by the Covid-19 crisis, with losses expected to be about $29 billion for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This is more than a third of the $84.3 billion industry losses estimated globally this year. IATA, in its revised review, estimated India\u2019s passenger demand to fall by 49 per cent year-on-year in the calendar year 2020 due to Covid-19 and slow recovery of the sector. Revenue impact of the pandemic on India\u2019s aviation sector is estimated at $11.6 billion. Furthermore, the potential jobs impact on aviation and sectors dependent on aviation is now pegged at 30.60 lakhs by IATA. In the past few months, every airline has started rationalisating its workforce and sending a large number of its employees on leave without pay. Salary cuts continue to remain rampant in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Monday said that airlines in the Asia-Pacific region will be the hardest hit by the Covid-19 crisis, with losses expected to be about $29 billion for 2020. This is more than a third of the $84.3 billion industry losses estimated globally this year. IATA, in its revised review, estimated India\u2019s passenger demand to fall by 49 per cent year-on-year in the calendar year 2020 due to Covid-19 and slow recovery of the sector. Revenue impact of the pandemic on India\u2019s aviation sector is estimated at $11.6 billion. Furthermore, the potential jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362716","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}