{"id":41127,"date":"2020-03-31T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/coping-rwandair-to-resume-cargo-flights\/"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:36:28","slug":"coping-rwandair-to-resume-cargo-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/coping-rwandair-to-resume-cargo-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping: RwandAir to resume cargo flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20th, 2020, the government of Rwanda resorted to implementing a complete lockdown on air travel to curb the spread of the virus since it was shown that most infected patients had a recent travel history. Only cargo and emergency flights were allowed to keep operating.<\/p>\n<p>RwandAir confirmed it will resume cargo carriage to facilitate trade and import of necessary goods including drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Makolo, RwandAir Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer said that passenger aircrafts will not be used for cargo transportation but rather freight haulers and &#8220;RwandAir is streamlining its operations to facilitate air freight during the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Air freight schedules will be announced by the end of this week. In a period where most airlines across the world are facing bankruptcy, cargo transportation is a solution that might help RwandAir stay afloat and at the same time ease international trade during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Other export goods such as tea, coffee, and flowers which make a large percentage of Rwanda&#8217;s earnings will also be transported.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35357 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton128644-6c065.jpg\" alt=\"RwandAir confirmed it will resume cargo carriage to facilitate trade and import of necessary goods including drugs.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RwandAir has announced it will resume air carriage for cargo to address trade challenges posed by coronavirus outbreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41127"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41127"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}