{"id":505670,"date":"2022-07-15T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505670"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T06:25:54","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-open-airspace-to-all-airlines-including-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-to-open-airspace-to-all-airlines-including-from-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to open airspace to all airlines, including from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said it would open its airspace to all air carriers, paving the way for more overflights to and from Israel, in a decision welcomed by US President Joe Biden who is due to visit the kingdom on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said the country\u2019s airspace was now open to all carriers that meet its requirements for overflights, in line with international conventions that say there should be no discrimination between civil aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The decision will \u201ccomplement the efforts aimed at consolidating the kingdom\u2019s position as a global hub connecting three continents and to enhance international air connectivity,\u201d GACA added in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said it would open its airspace to all air carriers, paving the way for more overflights to and from Israel, in a decision welcomed by US President Joe Biden who is due to visit the kingdom on Friday. The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said the country\u2019s airspace was now open to all carriers that meet its requirements for overflights, in line with international conventions that say there should be no discrimination between civil aircraft. The decision will \u201ccomplement the efforts aimed at consolidating the kingdom\u2019s position as a global hub connecting three continents and to [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505670","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=505670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}