{"id":6626,"date":"2021-10-14T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:40:59","slug":"pia-suspends-flights-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/10\/pia-suspends-flights-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"PIA suspends flights from and to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; State-owned Pakistan International Airlines suspended its flight operations to Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul Thursday after the Taliban authorities demanded a cut in its airfare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to keep flying into Kabul was taken on purely humanitarian grounds, and on the strong insistence of friendly organizations,\u201d PIA spokesman Abdullah Khan said in a statement sent to Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the insurance premium on these flights was so high that it was simply \u201cimpossible\u201d to operate.<\/p>\n<p>The PIA spokesman denied charging $2,000 or above and said the charter price per seat was $1,500 because of the insurance premium.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came hours after the Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Transport and Aviation issued a statement, demanding the PIA and Afghanistan domestic airline, Kam Air, reduce the price of tickets for the Kabul-Islamabad flights.<\/p>\n<p>The statement warned that in case of violation, flights of Pakistan International Airlines and Kam Air on the Kabul-Islamabad route will be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Kam Air announced it was not allowed to fly from Kabul to Islamabad by Pakistan\u2019s Ministry of Interior over a set of new rules.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; State-owned Pakistan International Airlines suspended its flight operations to Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul Thursday after the Taliban authorities demanded a cut in its airfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,4,6,7],"tags":[166,177,690,691],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-kabul","tag-pakistan","tag-pia","tag-islamabad"],"views":518,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}