{"id":10013,"date":"2019-06-22T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T12:40:00","slug":"etihad-airways-suspends-operations-over-strait-of-hormuz-gulf-of-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/06\/22\/etihad-airways-suspends-operations-over-strait-of-hormuz-gulf-of-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad Airways suspends operations over Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Etihad Airways has announced its suspending operations through Iranian airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the national airline of the UAE said, &#8220;Following the decision yesterday of the US Federal Aviation Administration to restrict US airline operations in Iranian-controlled airspace, Etihad Airways consulted closely with the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority and other UAE airlines to evaluate the US action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Etihad Airways has subsequently suspended operations through Iranian airspace over the Straits of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, and will use alternative flight paths on a number of routes to and from Abu Dhabi until further notice,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said that these changes will cause delays on some departures from Abu Dhabi, &#8220;due to increased congestion in available airspace, and will increase journey times on some routes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The safety of our passengers and staff is the highest priority for Etihad Airways assured, adding that it is &#8220;continually engaging with regulatory authorities and conducting our own risk assessments to ensure that our standards are not compromised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Updates on affected flights will be provided on the Etihad Airways website, the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etihad Airways has announced its suspending operations through Iranian airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. In a statement, the national airline of the UAE said, &#8220;Following the decision yesterday of the US Federal Aviation Administration to restrict US airline operations in Iranian-controlled airspace, Etihad Airways consulted closely with the UAE &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10015,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions\/10015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}