{"id":372043,"date":"2020-09-05T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372043"},"modified":"2020-09-05T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:08:09","slug":"ai-says-us-govt-decision-to-allow-it-to-self-conduct-ground-handling-at-airports-is-an-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ai-says-us-govt-decision-to-allow-it-to-self-conduct-ground-handling-at-airports-is-an-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"AI says US govt decision to allow it to self-conduct ground handling at airports is an &#8216;opportunity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air India on Friday said the US government&#8217;s plan to allow the airline to self-conduct ground handling operations at American airports is an &#8220;opportunity&#8221; and the airline will encash it in future &#8220;if there is ever such a need&#8221;. The national carrier clarified it was not affected by the July 2019 decision of the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) to suspend the right of Air India to self-handle at the US airports. The airline&#8217;s ground handling services at American airports has been contracted to another company.<\/p>\n<p>The USDOT on Friday announced that it plans to restore Air India&#8217;s ability to self-conduct its ground handling operations at American airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Air India on Friday said the US government&#8217;s plan to allow the airline to self-conduct ground handling operations at American airports is an &#8220;opportunity&#8221; and the airline will encash it in future &#8220;if there is ever such a need&#8221;. The national carrier clarified it was not affected by the July 2019 decision of the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) to suspend the right of Air India to self-handle at the US airports. The airline&#8217;s ground handling services at American airports has been contracted to another company. The USDOT on Friday announced that it plans to restore Air India&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372043","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}