{"id":629362,"date":"2024-01-19T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=629362"},"modified":"2024-01-19T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T07:37:19","slug":"british-airways-to-double-mandarin-speaking-cabin-crew-on-china-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-airways-to-double-mandarin-speaking-cabin-crew-on-china-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways to double Mandarin-speaking cabin crew on China routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: British Airways will double the number of Mandarin-speaking cabin crew on its China routes, its chief customer officer said on Thursday, as the airline seeks to expand in the world&#8217;s second-largest aviation market.<\/p>\n<p>The IAG-owned carrier expects to have 50 more Mandarin-speaking cabin crew aboard its flights to Beijing and Shanghai by July, Calum Laming told Reuters, which will take the total number to 100 and make China its second-largest overseas crew base after India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming back to the market is a major priority for the airline. We would not be out here doubling the crew base size otherwise,&#8221; Laming said. &#8220;Being able to double the number of cabin crew on board has a lot of benefits in terms of language, in terms of cultural awareness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing: British Airways will double the number of Mandarin-speaking cabin crew on its China routes, its chief customer officer said on Thursday, as the airline seeks to expand in the world&#8217;s second-largest aviation market. The IAG-owned carrier expects to have 50 more Mandarin-speaking cabin crew aboard its flights to Beijing and Shanghai by July, Calum Laming told Reuters, which will take the total number to 100 and make China its second-largest overseas crew base after India. &#8220;Coming back to the market is a major priority for the airline. We would not be out here doubling the crew base size otherwise,&#8221; [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629362","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=629362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}