{"id":431414,"date":"2021-08-19T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T05:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431414"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T07:30:51","slug":"afghan-airspace-closure-icao-forms-contingency-team-to-minimise-potential-risks-to-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghan-airspace-closure-icao-forms-contingency-team-to-minimise-potential-risks-to-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan airspace closure: ICAO forms contingency team to minimise potential risks to aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: United Nation\u2019s aviation arm, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), says it has formed a contingency team to deal with the Afghanistan situation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a platform for cooperation among state regulators and other aviation stakeholders, ICAO has established a \u2018contingency coordination team\u2019 (CCT) to assist with operational coordination, principally to permit the avoidance of Afghanistan\u2019s airspace and potential safety risks,\u201d ICAO secretary-general\u2019s communication officer, William Raillant-Clark, told TOI Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>All commercial airlines are now steering clear of Afghan airspace. United, the only airline apart from Air India with nonstops between India and the US, says its India routes are the only ones impacted by Afghan airspace closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: United Nation\u2019s aviation arm, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), says it has formed a contingency team to deal with the Afghanistan situation. \u201cAs a platform for cooperation among state regulators and other aviation stakeholders, ICAO has established a \u2018contingency coordination team\u2019 (CCT) to assist with operational coordination, principally to permit the avoidance of Afghanistan\u2019s airspace and potential safety risks,\u201d ICAO secretary-general\u2019s communication officer, William Raillant-Clark, told TOI Tuesday. All commercial airlines are now steering clear of Afghan airspace. United, the only airline apart from Air India with nonstops between India and the US, says its India routes are [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431414","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=431414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}