{"id":363369,"date":"2020-07-17T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363369"},"modified":"2020-07-17T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:26:52","slug":"covid-19%e2%80%89british-airways-retires-entire-fleet-of-boeings-jumbo-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19%e2%80%89british-airways-retires-entire-fleet-of-boeings-jumbo-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19:\u2009British Airways retires entire fleet of Boeing\u2019s jumbo jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways, the world\u2019s largest operator of Boeing 747, said late Thursday it would retire its entire jumbo jet fleet with immediate effect due to the downturn in travel industry caused by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Global curbs imposed to stem the spread of the virus led to a turbulence in air travel, placing the future of many airline companies in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unlikely our magnificent \u2018queen of the skies\u2019 will ever operate commercial services for British Airways again,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>British Airways, which is owned by International Consolidated Airlines Group, added that it will operate more flights on modern, fuel-efficient aircraft such as its new A350s and 787s and expects such aircraft to help in achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways, the world\u2019s largest operator of Boeing 747, said late Thursday it would retire its entire jumbo jet fleet with immediate effect due to the downturn in travel industry caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Global curbs imposed to stem the spread of the virus led to a turbulence in air travel, placing the future of many airline companies in doubt. \u201cIt is unlikely our magnificent \u2018queen of the skies\u2019 will ever operate commercial services for British Airways again,\u201d the company said in a statement. British Airways, which is owned by International Consolidated Airlines Group, added that it will operate [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363369","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\/363369","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=363369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}