{"id":403584,"date":"2021-03-08T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403584"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:35:59","slug":"airasia-plans-launch-of-flying-taxi-business-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-plans-launch-of-flying-taxi-business-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia plans launch of flying-taxi business next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd. said it is seeking to launch a flying-taxi business as soon as next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working on that right now,&#8221; 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.&#8221;<\/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&#8221; 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,&#8221; 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.&#8221; 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&#8221; last year that offers services from travel and shopping to logistics [&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-403584","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\/403584","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=403584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}