{"id":79164,"date":"2016-08-04T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T11:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=79164"},"modified":"2016-08-04T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T11:41:35","slug":"airlines-cancelreroute-flights-to-dubai-on-part-runway-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-cancelreroute-flights-to-dubai-on-part-runway-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines cancel\/reroute flights to Dubai on part runway closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget carriers IndiGo and SpiceJet cancelled their flights to Dubai while Jet Airways and Air India re-routed and clubbed their as the airport partly shut operations following a crash landing and explosion of an Emirates flight on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to unavailability of runway at Dubai airport, all IndiGo flights operating to and fro India stands cancelled for August 4, 2016,&#8221; said IndiGo in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From August 05 till 0730 IST August 07, 2016 &#8211; limited flights will be allowed to operate from Dubai airport,&#8221; it added. SpiceJet too cancelled its flights. <\/p>\n<p>Spokespersons at Jet Airways and Air India said their flights are being re-routed to Sharjah. The Jet spokesperson also said it has clubbed some of its flights from Mumbai into one operated by the widebodied Airbus A330 plane. <\/p>\n<p>Operation of Code C aircraft and below (Boeing 737\/Airbus A320 and below) are not being allowed at Dubai airport till tomorrow morning. This follows the crash landing of Emirates Trivandrum-Mumbai flight EK521 on the Dubai airport. The aircraft caught fire after landing and all passengers were evacuated. A fireman died in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget carriers IndiGo and SpiceJet cancelled their flights to Dubai while Jet Airways and Air India re-routed and clubbed their as the airport partly shut operations following a crash landing and explosion of an Emirates flight on Wednesday. &#8220;Due to unavailability of runway at Dubai airport, all IndiGo flights operating to and fro India stands cancelled for August 4, 2016,&#8221; said IndiGo in a statement. &#8220;From August 05 till 0730 IST August 07, 2016 &#8211; limited flights will be allowed to operate from Dubai airport,&#8221; it added. SpiceJet too cancelled its flights. Spokespersons at Jet Airways and Air India said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79164","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}