{"id":582340,"date":"2023-06-06T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=582340"},"modified":"2023-06-06T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:05:16","slug":"seatbelts-on-concerns-off-travel-demand-may-lift-airlines-profits-to-10-billion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/seatbelts-on-concerns-off-travel-demand-may-lift-airlines-profits-to-10-billion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seatbelts on, concerns off: Travel demand may lift airlines&#8217; profits to $10 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global airlines are seen reporting profits of around $9.8 billion from $4.7 billion in 2023 cheered by strong travel demand as the sector recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, as per IATA data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pandemic years are behind us and borders are open as normal,&#8221; Director General Willie Walsh told the annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking everything into account we believe this will be a good year for aviation,\u201d Walsh said. Airlines will fly 4.35 billion passengers this year, close to the 2019 record, the lobby body said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global airlines are seen reporting profits of around $9.8 billion from $4.7 billion in 2023 cheered by strong travel demand as the sector recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, as per IATA data. &#8220;The pandemic years are behind us and borders are open as normal,&#8221; Director General Willie Walsh told the annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). \u201cTaking everything into account we believe this will be a good year for aviation,\u201d Walsh said. Airlines will fly 4.35 billion passengers this year, close to the 2019 record, the lobby body said.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582340","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\/582340","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=582340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}