{"id":643072,"date":"2024-05-01T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643072"},"modified":"2024-05-01T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:30:09","slug":"lufthansa-air-france-klm-plan-to-cut-costs-after-tough-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lufthansa-air-france-klm-plan-to-cut-costs-after-tough-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa, Air France-KLM plan to cut costs after tough first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Europe&#8217;s top airline groups, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM, announced plans to cut costs after reporting wider first-quarter losses on Tuesday as they faced high customer payouts due to flight disruptions and labour disputes. <\/p>\n<p>The first quarter is often a loss-making one for airlines, with fewer bookings. But this year&#8217;s was worse than expected for the groups amid expensive strike action and disruption due to capacity limits and cancellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Europe&#8217;s top airline groups, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM, announced plans to cut costs after reporting wider first-quarter losses on Tuesday as they faced high customer payouts due to flight disruptions and labour disputes. The first quarter is often a loss-making one for airlines, with fewer bookings. But this year&#8217;s was worse than expected for the groups amid expensive strike action and disruption due to capacity limits and cancellations.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643072","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=643072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}