{"id":385401,"date":"2020-11-21T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385401"},"modified":"2020-11-21T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:59:26","slug":"airlines-need-another-70-80-bn-to-survive-iata-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-need-another-70-80-bn-to-survive-iata-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines need another $70-80 bn to survive: IATA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines need up to another $80 billion to survive, the head of the industry&#8217;s trade association told a French daily on Friday, as many countries tighten restrictions to confront another wave of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the coming months the industry is estimated to need $70-$80 billion (59 to 67 billion euros) in additional aid,&#8221; the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Alexandre de Juniac told La Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Otherwise they won&#8217;t survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Airlines are one of the sectors worst hit by measures adopted by governments to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but they have also received an estimated $160 billion in aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines need up to another $80 billion to survive, the head of the industry&#8217;s trade association told a French daily on Friday, as many countries tighten restrictions to confront another wave of coronavirus infections. &#8220;For the coming months the industry is estimated to need $70-$80 billion (59 to 67 billion euros) in additional aid,&#8221; the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Alexandre de Juniac told La Tribune. &#8220;Otherwise they won&#8217;t survive.&#8221; Airlines are one of the sectors worst hit by measures adopted by governments to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but they have also received an estimated [&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-385401","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\/385401","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=385401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}