{"id":362935,"date":"2020-07-16T10:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362935"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:45:50","slug":"us-regulators-downgrade-pakistans-air-safety-rating-bar-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-regulators-downgrade-pakistans-air-safety-rating-bar-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"US regulators downgrade Pakistan&#8217;s air safety rating, bar flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States downgraded the safety rating of Pakistan&#8217;s aviation system and will block Pakistan&#8217;s airlines from launching service to the US. <\/p>\n<p>The move announced on Wednesday follows revelations that nearly one-third of Pakistan&#8217;s pilots cheated on exams but still received licenses from the country&#8217;s civil-aviation authority. <\/p>\n<p>The US Federal Aviation Administration said that it put Pakistan in a so-called category 2 rating, which means airlines from Pakistan can&#8217;t start new flights to the US. Also, US airlines can&#8217;t sell seats on Pakistani flights, a practice called code-sharing that is common among other international airlines. <\/p>\n<p>There currently aren&#8217;t any regularly scheduled flights between the US and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States downgraded the safety rating of Pakistan&#8217;s aviation system and will block Pakistan&#8217;s airlines from launching service to the US. The move announced on Wednesday follows revelations that nearly one-third of Pakistan&#8217;s pilots cheated on exams but still received licenses from the country&#8217;s civil-aviation authority. The US Federal Aviation Administration said that it put Pakistan in a so-called category 2 rating, which means airlines from Pakistan can&#8217;t start new flights to the US. Also, US airlines can&#8217;t sell seats on Pakistani flights, a practice called code-sharing that is common among other international airlines. There currently aren&#8217;t any regularly [&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-362935","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\/362935","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=362935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}