{"id":345563,"date":"2020-04-06T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345563"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:16:48","slug":"air-india-flight-wins-rare-praise-from-pakistan-atc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-flight-wins-rare-praise-from-pakistan-atc\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India flight wins rare praise from Pakistan ATC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : An Air India flight ferrying foreigners stranded in India to Europe amid a raging pandemic has drawn rare praise from Pakistan, India\u2019s arch-rival and neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>A special flight operated by the national carrier to Frankfurt last week earned a thumbs-up from Pakistan\u2019s Air Traffic Controller (ATC), a senior airline official said. \u201cThe flight, evacuating foreign nationals stranded in India, due to the curfew imposed by the government, was praised by Pakistan\u2019s ATC officials,&#8221; the official said, requesting anonymity. The national carrier operated two international flights from Mumbai for relief operations and for evacuating foreign nationals stranded in India on 2 April.<\/p>\n<p>One of these flights to Frankfurt, while entering Pakistan airspace, was applauded by the country\u2019s ATC for the humanitarian efforts undertaken by the airline during the outbreak, which has grounded airlines around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : An Air India flight ferrying foreigners stranded in India to Europe amid a raging pandemic has drawn rare praise from Pakistan, India\u2019s arch-rival and neighbour. A special flight operated by the national carrier to Frankfurt last week earned a thumbs-up from Pakistan\u2019s Air Traffic Controller (ATC), a senior airline official said. \u201cThe flight, evacuating foreign nationals stranded in India, due to the curfew imposed by the government, was praised by Pakistan\u2019s ATC officials,&#8221; the official said, requesting anonymity. The national carrier operated two international flights from Mumbai for relief operations and for evacuating foreign nationals stranded in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345563","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}