{"id":47388,"date":"2014-02-14T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T09:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=47388"},"modified":"2014-02-14T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T09:12:57","slug":"india-says-no-airport-unsafe-in-country-47388","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/india-says-no-airport-unsafe-in-country-47388\/","title":{"rendered":"India says no airport unsafe in country"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47389\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47389\" alt=\"Indian airports are not unsafe: Indian minister\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Indian-Airport-India-Nationalturk-14-610x212.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Indian-Airport-India-Nationalturk-14-610x212.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Indian-Airport-India-Nationalturk-14-280x97.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Indian-Airport-India-Nationalturk-14.jpg 1292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian airports are not unsafe: Indian minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Trying to dispel notion that Indian airports are not safe, Indian minister has said there is no unsafe airport in the country.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Feb 14\/Nationalturk \u2013 Indian minister has said there is no unsafe airport in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no aerodrome which can be termed as unsafe,\u201d Indian Minister of State for Civil Aviation\u00a0 K C Venugopal told Lok Sabha, lower house of Indian parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He said information on facilities available at aerodromes is published through Aeronautical Information Publication for use by airline operators. \u201cThis includes the information on non-compliance on applicable standards. The aircraft operations are carried out by the aircraft operators after assessing the availability of facilities and their suitability for the type of aircraft including operational mitigation measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said certain operational mitigation measures may be required in case of aerodromes which are surrounded by terrain and have physical constraints.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Encouraging operation of flights to low density airports\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Venugopal said the government is encouraging operation of flights to some of the low density\/ non-operational airports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c No landing charges levied on aircraft with maximum certified capacity of below 80 seats being operated by domestic scheduled airlines and helicopters of all types for operation at AAI airports except at Chennai and Kolkata airports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further said land and parking charges at all airports in the North-East Region, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep (other than Defence airports) has been reduced by 25% of the current rates for domestic scheduled airlines.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to dispel notion that Indian airports are not safe, Indian minister has said there is no unsafe airport in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,117,14],"tags":[64947,64940,64942,64943,64951,43571,2546,62534,45553,64950,64941,64948,64952,54633,64945,57607,64939,64946,64949,64944],"class_list":["post-47388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-travel","category-world","tag-aai-airports","tag-aerodrome","tag-aeronautical-information-publication","tag-airline-operators","tag-andaman-nicobar","tag-chennai","tag-india","tag-indian-minister","tag-indian-parliament","tag-jammu-kashmir","tag-k-c-venugopal","tag-kolkata-airports","tag-lakshadweep","tag-lok-sabha","tag-low-density","tag-lower-house","tag-no-unsafe-airport","tag-non-operational-airports","tag-north-east-region","tag-operation-of-flights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}