{"id":74045,"date":"2016-09-12T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8bc4f8923ad7bef316261a3def5a6747"},"modified":"2016-09-12T05:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T05:00:04","slug":"press-release-alun-cairns-welcomes-temporary-flights-during-tunnel-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74045","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Alun Cairns welcomes temporary flights during tunnel closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h3 id=\"alun-cairns-secretary-of-state-for-wales-said\">Alun Cairns, Secretary of State for Wales, said:<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe flights being offered by FlyBe from Cardiff to London City Aiport are a helpful way of ensuring that the Welsh capital, Canary Wharf and central London stay connected during the temporary closure of the Severn Tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCardiff is growing in significance as a centre for financial services and the need for fast transport connections for business travellers is only going to increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we will see an expanding range of regional air services from London to Cardiff in the longer term. We need to make it as easy as possible for commuters to get here &#8211; whether by plane, or the faster travel times promised by the Crossrail upgrade.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State for Wales has welcomed temporary flights between Cardiff and London City Airport during the Severn Tunnel  closure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}