{"id":596673,"date":"2023-08-08T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596673"},"modified":"2023-08-08T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T07:35:55","slug":"air-france-suspends-flights-to-some-nearby-countries-after-niger-airspace-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-france-suspends-flights-to-some-nearby-countries-after-niger-airspace-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Air France suspends flights to some nearby countries after Niger airspace closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air France has suspended flights to and from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and Bamako in Mali until August 11, the company said on Monday, after Niger&#8217;s junta closed its airspace on Sunday, with longer flight times expected in the west African region. <\/p>\n<p>The disruption adds to a band of African airspace facing geopolitical disruptions including Libya and Sudan, with some flights facing up to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) in detours. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The closure of Niger&#8217;s airspace dramatically widens the area over which most commercial flights between Europe and southern Africa cannot fly,&#8221; tracking service FlightRadar24 said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air France has suspended flights to and from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and Bamako in Mali until August 11, the company said on Monday, after Niger&#8217;s junta closed its airspace on Sunday, with longer flight times expected in the west African region. The disruption adds to a band of African airspace facing geopolitical disruptions including Libya and Sudan, with some flights facing up to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) in detours. &#8220;The closure of Niger&#8217;s airspace dramatically widens the area over which most commercial flights between Europe and southern Africa cannot fly,&#8221; tracking service FlightRadar24 said in a blog post.<\/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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596673","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=596673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}