{"id":98881227,"date":"2011-02-24T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/airlines-cancel-libya-service-amid-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:26:48","slug":"airlines-cancel-libya-service-amid-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/airlines-cancel-libya-service-amid-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines Cancel Libya Service Amid Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list of airlines cancelling service to Libya continues to grow as the country descends even further into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, many European and Middle Eastern airlines, including Lufthansa, British Airways, Emirates, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/qatar-airways-qr\">Qatar Airways<\/a> have suspended service to Libya.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While opposition forces now control many eastern cities, President Muammar Qaddafi has vowed to fight to the death, ordering soldiers to fire on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dire situation has forced many countries like the United States and China to attempt a sea evacuation of citizens, ferrying rescue vessels across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the Libya\u2019s future remains uncertain, airlines are varying the lengths of service disruption. Lufthansa and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/british-airways-ba\">British Airways<\/a> won\u2019t fly in Libya until next week, while Emirates has canceled all flights through March 26. Qatar Airways announced an indefinite suspension of service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-02-24\/airlines-scrap-libya-flights-as-soldiers-open-fire-in-tripoli.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Businessweek <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nImage: <a href=\"http:\/\/framework.latimes.com\/2011\/02\/21\/unrest-escalates-in-libya-as-protests-continue-in-middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> LA Times <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of airlines cancelling service to Libya continues to grow as the country descends even further into chaos. &nbsp; As of Thursday, many European and Middle Eastern airlines, including Lufthansa, British Airways, Emirates, and Qatar Airways have suspended service to Libya. &nbsp; While opposition forces now control many eastern cities, President Muammar Qaddafi has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98909074,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881227\/revisions\/98909074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}