{"id":293541,"date":"2019-09-24T07:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293541"},"modified":"2019-09-24T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:25:10","slug":"exploring-third-country-en-route-through-transit-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/exploring-third-country-en-route-through-transit-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring third country en route, through transit visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have 24 hours to kill in a third country before you board a connecting flight. Why not get out of the airport to explore the city? Many countries allow this with a transit visa. Emirates now offers even a free stay at Dubai for flights from Bengaluru to Europe, the Americas or Africa. <\/p>\n<p>But the ease of getting a transit visa differs from country to country, airline to airline, according to a Bengaluru-based visa consultant. &#8220;For every country, there are specific guidelines to be followed. There are nations that insist on the visa even to change flights within an airport,&#8221; he explains. <\/p>\n<p>The Emirates offer is this: Passengers travelling First and Business Class with the airline in October, November or early December get two nights&#8217; free accommodation at a Dubai hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have 24 hours to kill in a third country before you board a connecting flight. Why not get out of the airport to explore the city? Many countries allow this with a transit visa. Emirates now offers even a free stay at Dubai for flights from Bengaluru to Europe, the Americas or Africa. But the ease of getting a transit visa differs from country to country, airline to airline, according to a Bengaluru-based visa consultant. &#8220;For every country, there are specific guidelines to be followed. There are nations that insist on the visa even to change flights within an [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293541","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=293541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}