{"id":505616,"date":"2022-07-15T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T05:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505616"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T05:45:58","slug":"saudi-arabia-lifts-ban-on-israeli-flights-amid-biden-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-lifts-ban-on-israeli-flights-amid-biden-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia lifts ban on Israeli flights amid Biden visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>]Saudi Arabia on Friday opened its airspace to &#8220;all air carriers,&#8221; signalling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory &#8211; a key step toward normalization between the two nations as President Joe Biden visits the region. In a statement posted to Twitter hours before Biden is set to become the first US leader to fly directly from Israel to the kingdom, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s General Authority of Civil Aviation said it was announcing &#8220;the decision to open the Kingdom&#8217;s airspace for all air carriers that meet the requirements of the Authority for overflying.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>]Saudi Arabia on Friday opened its airspace to &#8220;all air carriers,&#8221; signalling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory &#8211; a key step toward normalization between the two nations as President Joe Biden visits the region. In a statement posted to Twitter hours before Biden is set to become the first US leader to fly directly from Israel to the kingdom, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s General Authority of Civil Aviation said it was announcing &#8220;the decision to open the Kingdom&#8217;s airspace for all air carriers that meet the requirements of the Authority for overflying.&#8221;<\/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-505616","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\/505616","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=505616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}