{"id":279254,"date":"2019-06-21T05:57:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279254"},"modified":"2019-06-21T05:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:57:33","slug":"united-airlines-suspends-newark-mumbai-flights-over-iran-airspace-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/united-airlines-suspends-newark-mumbai-flights-over-iran-airspace-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines suspends Newark-Mumbai flights over Iran airspace concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines said it had suspended flights between New Jersey&#8217;s Newark airport and the Indian financial capital of Mumbai following a safety review after Iran shot down a high-altitude U.S. surveillance drone. <\/p>\n<p>The downing of the unarmed Global Hawk aircraft, which can fly at up to 60,000 ft (18,300 m), was the latest of a series of incidents in the Gulf region, a critical artery for global oil supplies, that included explosive strikes on six oil tankers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given current events in Iran, we have conducted a thorough safety and security review of our India service through Iranian airspace and decided to suspend our service,&#8221; United said on its website, but did not say how long the suspension would last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines said it had suspended flights between New Jersey&#8217;s Newark airport and the Indian financial capital of Mumbai following a safety review after Iran shot down a high-altitude U.S. surveillance drone. The downing of the unarmed Global Hawk aircraft, which can fly at up to 60,000 ft (18,300 m), was the latest of a series of incidents in the Gulf region, a critical artery for global oil supplies, that included explosive strikes on six oil tankers. &#8220;Given current events in Iran, we have conducted a thorough safety and security review of our India service through Iranian airspace and decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279254","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}