{"id":616962,"date":"2023-11-13T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T06:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=616962"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T06:16:51","slug":"asia-airlines-brace-for-cost-hit-slow-return-of-chinese-fliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/asia-airlines-brace-for-cost-hit-slow-return-of-chinese-fliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia airlines brace for cost hit, slow return of Chinese fliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Asia-Pacific airlines face headwinds from rising fuel prices and high inflation, industry executives said on Friday, adding to a downbeat outlook for a segment where travel demand is struggling to recover fully to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>The region&#8217;s air travel recovered to just 69% of 2019 levels for the year through September, trailing all other regions, impacted mainly by China&#8217;s slow reopening of borders after COVID-19, according to the International Air Transport Association.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Industry recovery has been slowed by inflation, the tight job market, supply chain constraints and fuel prices, which are still higher than in 2019,&#8221; Subhas Menon, Director General of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, told its annual gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Asia-Pacific airlines face headwinds from rising fuel prices and high inflation, industry executives said on Friday, adding to a downbeat outlook for a segment where travel demand is struggling to recover fully to pre-pandemic levels. The region&#8217;s air travel recovered to just 69% of 2019 levels for the year through September, trailing all other regions, impacted mainly by China&#8217;s slow reopening of borders after COVID-19, according to the International Air Transport Association. &#8220;Industry recovery has been slowed by inflation, the tight job market, supply chain constraints and fuel prices, which are still higher than in 2019,&#8221; Subhas Menon, Director [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616962","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=616962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}