{"id":200450,"date":"2018-12-18T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=200450"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:12:40","slug":"british-airways-to-resume-flights-to-pakistan-after-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-airways-to-resume-flights-to-pakistan-after-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways to resume flights to Pakistan after 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan from June 2019 after a period of 10 years, the airline announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirect flights from London Heathrow to Islamabad\u2019s new airport to start in June,\u201d said British High Commissioner Thomas Drew in a video on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA further boost to links between the UK and Pakistan, especially on trade and investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first flight will touch down in Islamabad, said a British Airways official at a press conference alongside the Pakistan Prime Minister\u2019s Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari.<\/p>\n<p>British Airways halted its operations to Pakistan 10 years ago, said Bukhari, terming the announcement \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2008, British Airways suspended all its flights to Pakistan because of security fears after a blast outside the Marriott Hotel that claimed more than 40 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan from June 2019 after a period of 10 years, the airline announced on Tuesday. \u201cDirect flights from London Heathrow to Islamabad\u2019s new airport to start in June,\u201d said British High Commissioner Thomas Drew in a video on Twitter. \u201cA further boost to links between the UK and Pakistan, especially on trade and investment.\u201d The first flight will touch down in Islamabad, said a British Airways official at a press conference alongside the Pakistan Prime Minister\u2019s Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari. British Airways halted its operations to Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}