{"id":268301,"date":"2019-04-06T05:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268301"},"modified":"2019-04-06T05:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:03:49","slug":"pakistan-moves-to-ease-airspace-curbs-but-flights-will-still-be-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-moves-to-ease-airspace-curbs-but-flights-will-still-be-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan moves to ease airspace curbs, but flights will still be longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Pakistan has opened up one overflight route for international airlines, though several restrictions remain in place, according to airline officials. The opening up of the overflight route has sparked hope in the Indian aviation sector that Islamabad could further ease curbs on the use of its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>An overflight route south of Pakistan was opened up on Thursday, offering marginal saving of time for some flights, according to an official at Air India. \u201cWe are waiting for instructions from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The route that has been opened up allows for a saving of 15 minutes of flight time,&#8221; said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Pakistan has opened up one overflight route for international airlines, though several restrictions remain in place, according to airline officials. The opening up of the overflight route has sparked hope in the Indian aviation sector that Islamabad could further ease curbs on the use of its airspace. An overflight route south of Pakistan was opened up on Thursday, offering marginal saving of time for some flights, according to an official at Air India. \u201cWe are waiting for instructions from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The route that has been opened up allows for a saving of [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268301","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=268301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}