{"id":449962,"date":"2021-11-16T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449962"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:39:18","slug":"american-airlines-bets-on-non-stop-travel-demand-relaunches-india-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/american-airlines-bets-on-non-stop-travel-demand-relaunches-india-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines bets on non-stop travel demand, relaunches India flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines relaunched flights to India this week, nearly a decade after stopping them, looking to capitalise on growing demand for non-stop travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, a senior executive of the airline told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>With travel demand bouncing back at home, American Airlines wants to expand its international network and India was \u201cone of the biggest untapped markets\u201d for it, said Tom Lattig, managing director of EMEA sales. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of customers really want to fly non-stop, particularly as we\u2019ve come through the pandemic. We know there is huge demand for travel between India and the United States so there is an opportunity right now in the middle of the pandemic to come back,\u201d Lattig said in an interview in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines relaunched flights to India this week, nearly a decade after stopping them, looking to capitalise on growing demand for non-stop travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, a senior executive of the airline told Reuters. With travel demand bouncing back at home, American Airlines wants to expand its international network and India was \u201cone of the biggest untapped markets\u201d for it, said Tom Lattig, managing director of EMEA sales. \u201cA lot of customers really want to fly non-stop, particularly as we\u2019ve come through the pandemic. We know there is huge demand for travel between India and the United States so [&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-449962","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\/449962","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=449962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}