{"id":14765,"date":"2020-02-20T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/coronavirus-hit-airline-shipping-industry-china-flights"},"modified":"2020-02-20T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:21:46","slug":"coronavirus-takes-heavy-toll-on-airlines-and-shipping-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14765","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus takes heavy toll on airlines and shipping firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies count cost of China flight cancellations and weaker travel demand across Asia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/20\/coronavirus-live-updates-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-japan-deaths-latest-news-china-infections\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Air France-KLM, Qantas, and the global container shipping company Maersk have become the latest businesses to warn about the financial impact from the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The airlines have cancelled flights to and from China and are experiencing weaker demand for travel in Asia. If flights remain suspended until April, the Franco-Dutch group Air France-KLM expects the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/what-is-coronavirus-what-should-i-do-if-i-have-symptoms-how-does-it-spread-from-wuhan-china\">Covid-19 <\/a>outbreak to wipe between \u20ac150-200m (\u00a3130-170m) off its earnings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/coronavirus-hit-airline-shipping-industry-china-flights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies count cost of China flight cancellations and weaker travel demand across AsiaCoronavirus \u2013 latest newsAir France-KLM, Qantas, and the global container shipping company Maersk have become the latest businesses to warn about the financial impac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[665,41,6,50,1069,1079,600,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-industry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-qantas","category-stock-markets","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14784,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions\/14784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}