{"id":371616,"date":"2020-09-03T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371616"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:35:15","slug":"saudi-allows-overflights-by-uae-to-all-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-allows-overflights-by-uae-to-all-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi allows overflights by UAE to all countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow UAE flights to \u201call countries\u201d to overfly the kingdom, state media reported Wednesday, days after allowing an Israeli aircraft to pass over en route to Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has accepted an Emirati request to allow \u201ccrossing the kingdom\u2019s airspace for flights heading to the UAE and departing from it to all countries\u201d, the official Saudi Press Agency said, citing a source from the civil aviation authority.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile announced that Monday\u2019s historic first commercial flight of an Israeli aircraft direct to the United Arab Emirates across Saudi Arabia would not be the last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsraeli planes and those from all countries will be able to fly directly from Israel to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and back,\u201d Netanyahu said, without giving any timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow UAE flights to \u201call countries\u201d to overfly the kingdom, state media reported Wednesday, days after allowing an Israeli aircraft to pass over en route to Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia has accepted an Emirati request to allow \u201ccrossing the kingdom\u2019s airspace for flights heading to the UAE and departing from it to all countries\u201d, the official Saudi Press Agency said, citing a source from the civil aviation authority. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile announced that Monday\u2019s historic first commercial flight of an Israeli aircraft direct to the United Arab Emirates across Saudi Arabia would [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371616","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=371616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}