{"id":376984,"date":"2020-10-06T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376984"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T05:40:20","slug":"long-buoyed-by-high-flying-emirates-dubai-now-shares-its-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/long-buoyed-by-high-flying-emirates-dubai-now-shares-its-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Long buoyed by high-flying Emirates, Dubai now shares its woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates Airline powered Dubai\u2019s rise from desert backwater to teeming Mideast metropolis, making the city one of the world\u2019s biggest intercontinental hubs and generating a yearslong economic boom.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic devastation it has wrought have forced the first major downsizing for an airline that has weathered Middle East conflicts and oil-market shocks. As a result, the state-owned carrier\u2019s woes are tearing through Dubai\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The airline\u2019s parent company, one of Dubai\u2019s biggest employers, has slashed tens of thousands of jobs from its 100,000-strong workforce after the pandemic halted much of global air travel, a fall from grace for an airline that long outmuscled competitors in the U.S. and Europe for landing rights and passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates Airline powered Dubai\u2019s rise from desert backwater to teeming Mideast metropolis, making the city one of the world\u2019s biggest intercontinental hubs and generating a yearslong economic boom. But now, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic devastation it has wrought have forced the first major downsizing for an airline that has weathered Middle East conflicts and oil-market shocks. As a result, the state-owned carrier\u2019s woes are tearing through Dubai\u2019s economy. The airline\u2019s parent company, one of Dubai\u2019s biggest employers, has slashed tens of thousands of jobs from its 100,000-strong workforce after the pandemic halted much of global air travel, a [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376984","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\/376984","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=376984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}