{"id":358956,"date":"2020-06-24T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358956"},"modified":"2020-06-24T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:32:55","slug":"us-accuses-india-of-discriminatory-practices-restricts-air-india-vande-bharat-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-accuses-india-of-discriminatory-practices-restricts-air-india-vande-bharat-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"US accuses India of &#8216;discriminatory practices&#8217;, restricts Air India Vande Bharat flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The US has asked Indian air carriers to apply for statements of authorisation prior to conducting charter flights, alleging that the Indian government is engaged in &#8220;unfair and discriminatory&#8221; practices with respect to air transportation services between India and America.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transportation (DOT) said on Monday that it was taking this action to restore a level playing field for US airlines.<\/p>\n<p>It said it &#8220;is taking this action because the Indian government is engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices with respect to charter air transportation services to and from India,&#8221; said an official statement after the DOT issued an order requiring Indian air carriers to apply to the Department for statements of authorisation prior to conducting charter flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The US has asked Indian air carriers to apply for statements of authorisation prior to conducting charter flights, alleging that the Indian government is engaged in &#8220;unfair and discriminatory&#8221; practices with respect to air transportation services between India and America. The Department of Transportation (DOT) said on Monday that it was taking this action to restore a level playing field for US airlines. It said it &#8220;is taking this action because the Indian government is engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices with respect to charter air transportation services to and from India,&#8221; said an official statement after the DOT [&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-358956","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\/358956","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=358956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}