{"id":373957,"date":"2020-09-17T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373957"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:23:40","slug":"asian-airlines-turn-to-flights-to-nowhere-to-get-travellers-back-in-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/asian-airlines-turn-to-flights-to-nowhere-to-get-travellers-back-in-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian airlines turn to &#8216;flights to nowhere&#8217; to get travellers back in the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas Airways Ltd said on Thursday it would operate a seven-hour scenic flight over Australia next month, adding to a growing trend in Asia of &#8220;flights to nowhere&#8221; that take off and land at the same airport.<\/p>\n<p>Tough border restrictions to keep the coronavirus under control have led to a 97.5% plunge in international travel in the region, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Many frequent flyers miss getting on planes and airlines including Taiwan&#8217;s EVA Airways Corp and Japan&#8217;s ANA Holdings Inc, desperate for revenue and to keep their pilots&#8217; licences current, have offered special sightseeing flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas Airways Ltd said on Thursday it would operate a seven-hour scenic flight over Australia next month, adding to a growing trend in Asia of &#8220;flights to nowhere&#8221; that take off and land at the same airport. Tough border restrictions to keep the coronavirus under control have led to a 97.5% plunge in international travel in the region, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines. Many frequent flyers miss getting on planes and airlines including Taiwan&#8217;s EVA Airways Corp and Japan&#8217;s ANA Holdings Inc, desperate for revenue and to keep their pilots&#8217; licences current, have offered special sightseeing flights.<\/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-373957","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\/373957","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=373957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}