{"id":557861,"date":"2023-02-23T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=557861"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:51:15","slug":"china-travel-demand-fails-to-pick-up-despite-reopening-airasia-x-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-travel-demand-fails-to-pick-up-despite-reopening-airasia-x-says\/","title":{"rendered":"China travel demand fails to pick up despite reopening, AirAsia X says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s AirAsia X Bhd. has only been able to sell enough tickets from China to fill just half of an aircraft\u2019s seats, a far cry from pre-pandemic days when 90% of planes were occupied on the same routes, underscoring challenges for the second-largest aviation market as it reopens to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSales haven\u2019t been off the roof,\u201d Benyamin Ismail, chief executive officer of the long-haul budget airline, said in an interview Wednesday. \u201cA lot of people are still uncertain about the requirements of the Chinese coming back in to China, whether you need to be quarantined. Even though they say they are open, we don\u2019t know if you have Covid, you\u2019d have to stay at a center or not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s AirAsia X Bhd. has only been able to sell enough tickets from China to fill just half of an aircraft\u2019s seats, a far cry from pre-pandemic days when 90% of planes were occupied on the same routes, underscoring challenges for the second-largest aviation market as it reopens to the outside world. \u201cSales haven\u2019t been off the roof,\u201d Benyamin Ismail, chief executive officer of the long-haul budget airline, said in an interview Wednesday. \u201cA lot of people are still uncertain about the requirements of the Chinese coming back in to China, whether you need to be quarantined. Even though they [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557861","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=557861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}