{"id":378648,"date":"2020-10-15T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378648"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:12:54","slug":"airline-makes-real-money-on-fake-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airline-makes-real-money-on-fake-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline makes real money on fake flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing brings to mind pleasure quite like the memory of bumping elbows with strangers while trying to carve up \u201cchicken or beef&#8221; with plastic cutlery.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s what ticket holders to Singapore Airlines\u2019 dining event seem to think. The airline is offering a chance for a meal on its \u201clargest passenger aircraft,&#8221; the A380, for two weekends starting October 24 while parked on the tarmac. Don\u2019t get your hopes up too much, though\u2014all seats are sold out, though one can still join a wait list.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t cheap. Dining in the economy class cabin sets you back 53.5 Singapore Dollars, or roughly $40. For six times that amount, you can dine in the more spacious business-class section. And if you\u2019re willing to shell out $472, you can even be seated in your own suite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing brings to mind pleasure quite like the memory of bumping elbows with strangers while trying to carve up \u201cchicken or beef&#8221; with plastic cutlery. At least, that\u2019s what ticket holders to Singapore Airlines\u2019 dining event seem to think. The airline is offering a chance for a meal on its \u201clargest passenger aircraft,&#8221; the A380, for two weekends starting October 24 while parked on the tarmac. Don\u2019t get your hopes up too much, though\u2014all seats are sold out, though one can still join a wait list. It isn\u2019t cheap. Dining in the economy class cabin sets you back 53.5 Singapore [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378648","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\/378648","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=378648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}