{"id":309568,"date":"2020-01-09T10:19:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T04:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309568"},"modified":"2020-01-09T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T05:13:18","slug":"uae-airlines-cancel-baghdad-flights-after-iran-missile-strike-on-us-bases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uae-airlines-cancel-baghdad-flights-after-iran-missile-strike-on-us-bases-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE airlines cancel Baghdad flights after Iran missile strike on US bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UAE carriers Emirates Airline and low-cost Flydubai said Wednesday they had cancelled flights to Baghdad for &#8220;operational reasons&#8221; after Iran fired ballistic missiles on bases housing US troops. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emirates flights EK 943 from Dubai to Baghdad and flight EK 944 from Baghdad to Dubai on 8 January have been cancelled for operational reasons,&#8221; Emirates Airline said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are carefully monitoring the developments and are in close contact with the relevant government authorities with regards to our flight operations, and will make further operational changes if required,&#8221; said the Middle East region&#8217;s largest carrier. <\/p>\n<p>Iran early on Wednesday fired 22 missiles at two bases in Iraq housing US troops in retaliation for the Friday killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE carriers Emirates Airline and low-cost Flydubai said Wednesday they had cancelled flights to Baghdad for &#8220;operational reasons&#8221; after Iran fired ballistic missiles on bases housing US troops. &#8220;Emirates flights EK 943 from Dubai to Baghdad and flight EK 944 from Baghdad to Dubai on 8 January have been cancelled for operational reasons,&#8221; Emirates Airline said in a statement. &#8220;We are carefully monitoring the developments and are in close contact with the relevant government authorities with regards to our flight operations, and will make further operational changes if required,&#8221; said the Middle East region&#8217;s largest carrier. Iran early on Wednesday [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309568","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=309568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}