{"id":282852,"date":"2019-07-17T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T07:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282852"},"modified":"2019-07-17T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T07:20:37","slug":"relief-for-flyers-airlines-as-pak-opens-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/relief-for-flyers-airlines-as-pak-opens-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief for flyers, airlines as Pak opens airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan opened its airspace for flights to and from India on Tuesday after a ban of almost four-and-a-half months. Air India and SpiceJet were the first to take advantage of the opened airspace. Air India operated its San Francisco-Delhi and SpiceJet its Jaipur-Dubai flight using the airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Air India might also see its flight operations returning to its original schedule later tonight, said a spokesperson for the airline.<\/p>\n<p>Operation cost <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAircraft utilisation will go up while crew requirement will come down by 25 per cent. Flight operation costs for US-bound flights may come down by \u20b920 lakh one way and for Europe-bound flights it may come down by \u20b95 lakh,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan opened its airspace for flights to and from India on Tuesday after a ban of almost four-and-a-half months. Air India and SpiceJet were the first to take advantage of the opened airspace. Air India operated its San Francisco-Delhi and SpiceJet its Jaipur-Dubai flight using the airspace. Air India might also see its flight operations returning to its original schedule later tonight, said a spokesperson for the airline. Operation cost \u201cAircraft utilisation will go up while crew requirement will come down by 25 per cent. Flight operation costs for US-bound flights may come down by \u20b920 lakh one way and [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282852","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=282852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}