{"id":373951,"date":"2020-09-17T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373951"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:24:15","slug":"flights-that-take-off-and-land-at-same-airport-a-new-buzz-among-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flights-that-take-off-and-land-at-same-airport-a-new-buzz-among-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights that take-off and land at same airport &#8211; A new buzz among flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global airline sector is going through a tough period. Harsh border restrictions to keep the covid under control have led to a 97.5% plunge in international travel in Asia, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines. Revenues are falling due lockdown in international travel, and hope for a quick recovery in demand looks like a distant dream.<\/p>\n<p>Sisyphean flights<\/p>\n<p>As people say desperate times call for unique measures, airlines have started a new Sisyphean-sort of flights, flights take off and land at the same airport. Termed as &#8220;flights to nowhere&#8221;, airlines are adding to a growing trend in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global airline sector is going through a tough period. Harsh border restrictions to keep the covid under control have led to a 97.5% plunge in international travel in Asia, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines. Revenues are falling due lockdown in international travel, and hope for a quick recovery in demand looks like a distant dream. Sisyphean flights As people say desperate times call for unique measures, airlines have started a new Sisyphean-sort of flights, flights take off and land at the same airport. Termed as &#8220;flights to nowhere&#8221;, airlines are adding to a growing trend in Asia.<\/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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373951","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=373951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}