{"id":403507,"date":"2021-03-08T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403507"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:16:08","slug":"malaysias-airasia-group-plans-air-taxi-drone-delivery-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/malaysias-airasia-group-plans-air-taxi-drone-delivery-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s AirAsia Group plans air taxi, drone delivery service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s AirAsia Group Bhd plans to launch an air taxi service and the country&#8217;s first drone delivery service as the budget carrier seeks to diversify amid the coronavirus pandemic, the company&#8217;s CEO said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the group&#8217;s diversification push, it also aims to launch a ride-hailing service next month as Covid-19 continues to hit air travel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The air taxi will have a pilot and four seats. At the moment, we have our team working on this upcoming service by AirAsia,&#8221; Chief Executive Tony Fernandes said at the Youth Economic Forum 2021, state news agency Bernama reported on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The service should start operating in about 18 months, Fernandes was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s AirAsia Group Bhd plans to launch an air taxi service and the country&#8217;s first drone delivery service as the budget carrier seeks to diversify amid the coronavirus pandemic, the company&#8217;s CEO said on Saturday. As part of the group&#8217;s diversification push, it also aims to launch a ride-hailing service next month as Covid-19 continues to hit air travel. &#8220;The air taxi will have a pilot and four seats. At the moment, we have our team working on this upcoming service by AirAsia,&#8221; Chief Executive Tony Fernandes said at the Youth Economic Forum 2021, state news agency Bernama reported on [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403507","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=403507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}