{"id":596,"date":"2011-02-21T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/egyptair-looks-to-lease-out-aircraft-and-crew-amid-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:04:00","slug":"egyptair-looks-to-lease-out-aircraft-and-crew-amid-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/egyptair-looks-to-lease-out-aircraft-and-crew-amid-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"EgyptAir Looks to Lease Out Aircraft and Crew Amid Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/2\/Egyptair.a330.jpg\" alt=\"EgyptAir\nis offering to lease nearly 40 percent of its fleet (Image: Wikimedia)\" title=\"EgyptAir is offering to lease nearly 40 percent of its fleet\n(Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>EgyptAir is looking to lease out nearly 40 percent of its fleet <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWeeks after political unrest and history-making protests first brought Egyptian tourism to a standstill, struggling EgyptAir is now looking for ways to cut its losses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe airline, which has canceled nearly 75% of its flights since January 25, recently said it is looking to lease out 25 of its aircraft to other members of the Star Alliance network.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEgyptAir&#39;s 70-plane fleet includes Airbus A330s, Airbus A340s, Boeing<br \/>\n777-200ERs, Boeing 777-300ERs, and Boeing 737s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe carrier is also offering to fully staff the aircraft as it looks for ways to put employees back to work.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEgyptAir chairman Hussein Massoud said the airline is considering other options, including cutting working hours and offering leaves of absence without pay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/02\/egyptair-struggles\/143858\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; EgyptAir is looking to lease out nearly 40 percent of its fleet &nbsp; Weeks after political unrest and history-making protests first brought Egyptian tourism to a standstill, struggling EgyptAir is now looking for ways to cut its losses. &nbsp; The airline, which has canceled nearly 75% of its flights since January 25, recently said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}