{"id":371696,"date":"2020-09-04T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371696"},"modified":"2020-09-04T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:15:14","slug":"airlines-are-removing-seats-to-make-space-for-gadgets-and-seafood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-are-removing-seats-to-make-space-for-gadgets-and-seafood-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines are removing seats to make space for gadgets and seafood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo, one of the least glamorous aspects of flying, is proving a rare ray of light for airlines amid the coronavirus gloom. <\/p>\n<p>The grounding of passenger planes at a time of increased demand for everything from medical supplies to iPhones has boosted freight rates. With much of the world\u2019s population house-bound and shopping online instead of hitting the malls, analysts see no let up in demand, particularly as the peak year-end holiday season approaches. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirfreight is going to be a bright spot for carriers at least for this year because while borders are closed that doesn\u2019t mean people aren\u2019t buying,\u201d said Um Kyung-a, an airline analyst at Shinyoung Securities Co. in Seoul. \u201cThat trend is likely to continue as cargo capacity remains limited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo, one of the least glamorous aspects of flying, is proving a rare ray of light for airlines amid the coronavirus gloom. The grounding of passenger planes at a time of increased demand for everything from medical supplies to iPhones has boosted freight rates. With much of the world\u2019s population house-bound and shopping online instead of hitting the malls, analysts see no let up in demand, particularly as the peak year-end holiday season approaches. \u201cAirfreight is going to be a bright spot for carriers at least for this year because while borders are closed that doesn\u2019t mean people aren\u2019t buying,\u201d [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371696","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=371696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}