{"id":58963,"date":"2024-06-03T19:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iata-willie-walsh-no-stopping-airline-industry-growth\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T19:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:41:36","slug":"iatas-willie-walsh-explains-why-there-is-no-stopping-airline-industry-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=58963","title":{"rendered":"IATA&#8217;s Willie Walsh Explains Why There Is No Stopping Airline Industry Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            During a press conference at the IATA AGM, Willie Walsh (<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iata\/\">IATA<\/a>&#8216;s Director General) was asked about the airline&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/carbon-emissions\/\">emission reduction<\/a> regime and if the airline industry should &#8220;<em>slam on the brakes and stop growth&#8230; for emission reduction targets<\/em>.&#8221; Walsh dismissed this view as being European-centric and unworkable in the world. Instead, he insisted reducing the carbon footprint was the way to go. Many <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-are-airlines-doing-to-reduce-carbon-emissions\/\">airlines are already taking measurable steps to reduce their emissions<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walsh says outside of Europe, the airline industry is set to continue growing, and reducing the carbon footprint is the course of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,595,5864,482,575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-emissions","category-growth","category-iata"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58995,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58963\/revisions\/58995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}