{"id":62187,"date":"2019-11-13T01:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/aviakompaniia-easyjet-planiryet-otkryt-sobstvennyu-tyrfirmy.html"},"modified":"2019-11-13T01:04:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:04:51","slug":"aviakompaniia-easyjet-planiryet-otkryt-sobstvennyu-tyrfirmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/aviakompaniia-easyjet-planiryet-otkryt-sobstvennyu-tyrfirmy","title":{"rendered":"EasyJet plans to open its own travel agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>British airline EasyJet is planning to open its own travel agency to sell package tours, The Times reports, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a44897669eeee9ca1afcf944f6d92198.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition, the portal notes that the head of the carrier is not afraid <!--more-->the bankruptcy of tour operator Thomas Cook, which may indicate a decline in tourist interest in package tours.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn turn, CEO Johan Lundgren believes that having its own travel agency will help increase profits, since the airline is currently experiencing financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;It would be quite difficult to choose the right time to enter the package holiday market, given the bankruptcy of Thomas Cook, the need of hoteliers and the government&#039;s desire to protect hotels from bankruptcy. Package holidays have not lost their popularity, it is just that the 7-14 day holiday model is becoming irrelevant,&quot; informed sources told the publication, noting that EasyJet is planning to offer holidays with insurance under the Atol (Air Travel Organisers` Licensing) scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/97403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British airline EasyJet is planning to open its own travel agency to sell package tours, The Times reports, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}