{"id":458256,"date":"2021-12-24T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T05:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458256"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T05:35:41","slug":"omicron-wave-forces-lufthansa-to-axe-33000-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/omicron-wave-forces-lufthansa-to-axe-33000-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron wave forces Lufthansa to axe 33,000 flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German national carrier Lufthansa will cut its winter flight plan by &#8220;around 10 percent&#8221; as the spread of the Omicron variant fuels uncertainty about travel, chief executive Carsten Spohr said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the middle of January to February, we see a sharp drop off in bookings&#8221;, leading the airline group to cancel &#8220;33,000 flights or about 10 percent&#8221; of its flights this winter, Spohr said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German national carrier Lufthansa will cut its winter flight plan by &#8220;around 10 percent&#8221; as the spread of the Omicron variant fuels uncertainty about travel, chief executive Carsten Spohr said Thursday. &#8220;From the middle of January to February, we see a sharp drop off in bookings&#8221;, leading the airline group to cancel &#8220;33,000 flights or about 10 percent&#8221; of its flights this winter, Spohr said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458256","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}