{"id":263250,"date":"2019-03-11T04:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T04:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263250"},"modified":"2019-03-11T04:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T04:58:05","slug":"air-india-losing-rs-3-cr-daily-as-pak-airspace-closure-ups-flight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-losing-rs-3-cr-daily-as-pak-airspace-closure-ups-flight-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India losing Rs 3 cr daily as Pak airspace closure ups flight time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India is incurring a loss of around Rs three crore a day on its Europe and US flights due to the closure of Pakistan airspace, a senior airline official said on Thursday. Last Wednesday, Pakistan closed its airspace to all flights over its territory, forcing airlines from India and other countries to take a detour. This has led to an increase in flight duration and has also put a strain on air traffic controllers in Mumbai, who are working extra shifts to handle the increase in traffic. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Pakistan&#8217;s civil aviation authority extended the closure by another day till Friday afternoon. Flights within and to Pakistan from overseas have been operating for the past few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India is incurring a loss of around Rs three crore a day on its Europe and US flights due to the closure of Pakistan airspace, a senior airline official said on Thursday. Last Wednesday, Pakistan closed its airspace to all flights over its territory, forcing airlines from India and other countries to take a detour. This has led to an increase in flight duration and has also put a strain on air traffic controllers in Mumbai, who are working extra shifts to handle the increase in traffic. On Friday, Pakistan&#8217;s civil aviation authority extended the closure by another day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263250","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}