{"id":403470,"date":"2021-03-08T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403470"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:50:16","slug":"airasia-targets-launch-of-flying-taxi-business-as-soon-as-next-year-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-targets-launch-of-flying-taxi-business-as-soon-as-next-year-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia targets launch of flying-taxi business as soon as next year: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd. said it is seeking to launch a flying-taxi business as soon as next year.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are working on that right now,\u201d Tony Fernandes, the company\u2019s chief executive officer and co-founder, said Saturday. \u201cI think we are about a year and a half away from launching.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Fernandes was speaking in an online discussion as part of the Youth Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<p>With the airline business taking a hit from the coronavirus pandemic, AirAsia has been expanding in the digital space. It launched a \u201csuper app\u201d last year that offers services from travel and shopping to logistics and financial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd. said it is seeking to launch a flying-taxi business as soon as next year. \u201cWe are working on that right now,\u201d Tony Fernandes, the company\u2019s chief executive officer and co-founder, said Saturday. \u201cI think we are about a year and a half away from launching.\u201d Fernandes was speaking in an online discussion as part of the Youth Economic Forum. With the airline business taking a hit from the coronavirus pandemic, AirAsia has been expanding in the digital space. It launched a \u201csuper app\u201d last year that offers services from travel and shopping to logistics [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403470","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=403470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}