{"id":440583,"date":"2021-10-06T11:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440583"},"modified":"2021-10-06T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T07:01:00","slug":"ai-to-take-new-hindu-kush-route-for-nonstops-between-delhi-uk-north-america-to-cut-flying-time-post-afghan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ai-to-take-new-hindu-kush-route-for-nonstops-between-delhi-uk-north-america-to-cut-flying-time-post-afghan-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to take new Hindu Kush route for nonstops between Delhi &amp; UK, North America to cut flying time post Afghan crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The increased flying time for Air India nonstops between Delhi-UK and Delhi-North America since Afghan airspace closure on August 16 is going to reduce significantly with the airline deciding to use a route for the first time \u2014 over the mighty Hindu Kush ranges. <\/p>\n<p>This new routing will see its Boeing 777s and 787s fly over the awe-inspiring Tirich Mir (7,780 metres), the world\u2019s highest peak outside the Himalaya-Karakoram range. <\/p>\n<p>Since mid-August nonstops on these routes, including PM Modi\u2019s recent US visit on India One, take the longer route via south Pakistan below Afghanistan and then enter Iran-Turkey-beyond instead of the shorter Pakistan-Afghanistan-Turkmenistan\/Uzbekistan route earlier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The increased flying time for Air India nonstops between Delhi-UK and Delhi-North America since Afghan airspace closure on August 16 is going to reduce significantly with the airline deciding to use a route for the first time \u2014 over the mighty Hindu Kush ranges. This new routing will see its Boeing 777s and 787s fly over the awe-inspiring Tirich Mir (7,780 metres), the world\u2019s highest peak outside the Himalaya-Karakoram range. Since mid-August nonstops on these routes, including PM Modi\u2019s recent US visit on India One, take the longer route via south Pakistan below Afghanistan and then enter Iran-Turkey-beyond [&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-440583","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\/440583","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=440583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}