{"id":377717,"date":"2020-10-12T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377717"},"modified":"2020-10-12T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:12:15","slug":"winter-is-coming-for-the-worlds-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/winter-is-coming-for-the-worlds-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is coming for the world\u2019s airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think your summer holidays were lackluster in an era of pandemic-induced staycations, spare a thought for the world\u2019s airlines.<\/p>\n<p>The industry typically earns some 40% of its profits in the third calendar quarter alone, as the surge in travel gives carriers the chance to finally fill up planes at prices that can pay off their wage, fuel and debt bills.<\/p>\n<p>There were aspirations a while back that the three months through September might see enough of a recovery from coronavirus lockdowns to keep airlines\u2019 heads above water. The 18% improvement in a Bloomberg index of world airline stocks in August was the best performance for the benchmark since it was first compiled 20 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think your summer holidays were lackluster in an era of pandemic-induced staycations, spare a thought for the world\u2019s airlines. The industry typically earns some 40% of its profits in the third calendar quarter alone, as the surge in travel gives carriers the chance to finally fill up planes at prices that can pay off their wage, fuel and debt bills. There were aspirations a while back that the three months through September might see enough of a recovery from coronavirus lockdowns to keep airlines\u2019 heads above water. The 18% improvement in a Bloomberg index of world airline stocks [&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-377717","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\/377717","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=377717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}