{"id":283068,"date":"2019-07-18T06:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283068"},"modified":"2019-07-18T07:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T07:07:14","slug":"pakistan-lifts-post-balakot-airspace-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-lifts-post-balakot-airspace-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan lifts post-Balakot airspace restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan reopened its airspace to international flights on Tuesday, ending close to five months of acute discomfort for passengers and crippling costs for airlines that were forced to take lengthy detours.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad\u2019s decision will reduce travel time on flights to the US, Europe, the Gulf and central Asian countries, save fuel and make air tickets cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan had closed its airspace on February 26 after India\u2019s air strikes in Balakot in retaliation for the Pulwama massacre on February 14.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) at 12.41am (IST), stating that the country\u2019s airspace had been opened with immediate effect for all types of civil traffic on \u201cpublished ATS (air traffic service) routes\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan reopened its airspace to international flights on Tuesday, ending close to five months of acute discomfort for passengers and crippling costs for airlines that were forced to take lengthy detours. Islamabad\u2019s decision will reduce travel time on flights to the US, Europe, the Gulf and central Asian countries, save fuel and make air tickets cheaper. Pakistan had closed its airspace on February 26 after India\u2019s air strikes in Balakot in retaliation for the Pulwama massacre on February 14. Pakistan\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) at 12.41am (IST), stating that the country\u2019s airspace had been opened [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283068","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=283068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}