{"id":371376,"date":"2020-09-02T11:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T06:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371376"},"modified":"2020-09-02T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T07:04:39","slug":"global-air-passenger-traffic-falls-by-79-8-per-cent-in-july-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-air-passenger-traffic-falls-by-79-8-per-cent-in-july-iata\/","title":{"rendered":"Global air passenger traffic falls by 79.8 per cent in July: IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global air passenger traffic was 79.8 per cent less in July this year compared to the corresponding period a year ago, airlines body IATA said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was somewhat better than the 86.6% year-over-year decline recorded in June, primarily driven by domestic markets, most notably Russia and China,\u201d the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger traffic is measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs, which is calculated by multiplying the number of passengers in a flight to the distance travelled by the flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crisis in demand continued with little respite in July. With essentially four in five air travelers staying home, the industry remains largely paralyzed,\u201d said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA\u2019s Director General and CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global air passenger traffic was 79.8 per cent less in July this year compared to the corresponding period a year ago, airlines body IATA said on Tuesday. \u201cThis was somewhat better than the 86.6% year-over-year decline recorded in June, primarily driven by domestic markets, most notably Russia and China,\u201d the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in a statement. Passenger traffic is measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs, which is calculated by multiplying the number of passengers in a flight to the distance travelled by the flight. \u201cThe crisis in demand continued with little respite in July. With essentially [&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":[176,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371376","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=371376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}