{"id":392322,"date":"2020-12-30T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=392322"},"modified":"2020-12-30T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:08:46","slug":"flying-in-2021-it-can-only-get-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flying-in-2021-it-can-only-get-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying in 2021 \u2014 It can only get better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some unexpected success stories in a year that IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac branded an \u201cannus horribilis\u201d for aviation. And even this characterization might be an understatement. But one has to look for these small hints of hope amid widespread desperation.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, one of the grand industry players, was no stranger to success and always in expansion mode. Not so in 2020: For months on end, there were no flights or just a fraction of normal operations. That\u2019s something that would have been impossible to imagine only months before. It\u2019s been a year like no other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the passenger business, we are now just at 18% of revenues we had last year,\u201d Emirates President Sir Tim Clark told DW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some unexpected success stories in a year that IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac branded an \u201cannus horribilis\u201d for aviation. And even this characterization might be an understatement. But one has to look for these small hints of hope amid widespread desperation. For example, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, one of the grand industry players, was no stranger to success and always in expansion mode. Not so in 2020: For months on end, there were no flights or just a fraction of normal operations. That\u2019s something that would have been impossible to imagine only months before. It\u2019s been a year [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392322","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=392322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}