NEW DELHI: Ukraine \u2014 which is now being increasingly avoided by international airlines \u2014 had about six months back approached Air India to resume overflying the country.
\nThe Maharaja had stopped doing that since the July 2014 shooting down of Malaysian Airlines\u2019 Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight MH 17 over eastern Ukraine that killed all 298 people on board.
\nAI did not then take up Ukraine\u2019s offer, a decision that has proven to be the correct one given the geopolitical situation now. Overflying is a major source of revenue for countries, something that Ukraine had been trying to revive after MH 17.
\n\u201cAir India operating nonstops between the US\/Europe and India has not been overflying Ukrainian Airspace since MH 17 incident. Ukraine had contacted Air India about six months back to say that their airspace is safe and they can resume overflying. However, AI did not take up the offer,\u201d said people in the know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Ukraine \u2014 which is now being increasingly avoided by international airlines \u2014 had about six months back approached Air India to resume overflying the country. The Maharaja had stopped doing that since the July 2014 shooting down of Malaysian Airlines\u2019 Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight MH 17 over eastern Ukraine that killed all 298 people on board. AI did not then take up Ukraine\u2019s offer, a decision that has proven to be the correct one given the geopolitical situation now. Overflying is a major source of revenue for countries, something that Ukraine had been trying to revive after MH 17. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-467897","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\/467897","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}