{"id":349181,"date":"2020-05-02T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349181"},"modified":"2020-05-02T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:12:49","slug":"pakistan-international-airlines-to-operate-direct-flights-to-us-for-the-first-time-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-international-airlines-to-operate-direct-flights-to-us-for-the-first-time-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan international Airlines to operate direct flights to US for the first time: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: For the first time, Pakistan&#8217;s cash-strapped national flag carrier has been given permission by the US authorities to enter America directly, the airline spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>A communique issued by the US Department of Transportation allowed Pakistan International Airlines to operate 12 flights in a month. The permission will expire on April 29, 2021, Dawn News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the PIA had to pass through security checks at airports in Europe and Britain before entering the United States \u2013 owing to the latter&#8217;s security regulations, the Express Tribune reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: For the first time, Pakistan&#8217;s cash-strapped national flag carrier has been given permission by the US authorities to enter America directly, the airline spokesperson said. A communique issued by the US Department of Transportation allowed Pakistan International Airlines to operate 12 flights in a month. The permission will expire on April 29, 2021, Dawn News reported. Previously, the PIA had to pass through security checks at airports in Europe and Britain before entering the United States \u2013 owing to the latter&#8217;s security regulations, the Express Tribune reported.<\/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-349181","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\/349181","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=349181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}