{"id":59921,"date":"2019-04-25T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T11:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59921"},"modified":"2019-04-25T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T11:14:53","slug":"etihad-becomes-first-major-airline-to-operate-plastic-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/etihad-becomes-first-major-airline-to-operate-plastic-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad becomes first major airline to operate plastic-free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UAE&#8217;s  flag carrier Etihad Airways has become the first airline in the Gulf  region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on board, in a  bid to raise awareness about pollution on Earth Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According \nto the Abu Dhabi-based national airline of the UAE, the flight EY484 \nlanded in Brisbane on the day. The milestone flight is part of Etihad&#8217;s \npledge to reduce single-use plastic usage by 80 per cent not just \nin-flight, but across the entire organisation by the end of 2022, the \nairline said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Etihad identified that over 95 \nsingle-use plastic products are used across its aircraft cabins. Once \nremoved from the Earth Day flight, Etihad prevented over 50 kilograms of\n plastics from being landfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guests on board enjoyed \nreplacement products including sustainable amenity kits, award-winning \neco-thread blankets made out of recycled plastic bottles, tablet \ntoothpaste and edible coffee cups while children were treated to \neco-plush toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result of planning the Earth Day flight, \nEtihad additionally committed to remove up to 20 per cent of the \nsingle-use plastic items on board by June 1, the statement said.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE&#8217;s flag carrier Etihad Airways has become the first airline in the Gulf region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59923,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59921\/revisions\/59923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}