{"id":52071,"date":"2017-11-13T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T06:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=52071"},"modified":"2017-11-13T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T06:39:15","slug":"united-resumes-newark-delhi-flights-after-halt-due-to-poor-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/united-resumes-newark-delhi-flights-after-halt-due-to-poor-air-quality.html","title":{"rendered":"United resumes Newark-Delhi flights after halt due to poor air quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">United resumes Newark-Delhi flights after halt due to poor air quality<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">United resumes Newark-Delhi flights after halt due to poor air quality:- United Airlines said it had resumed flights from Newark, New Jersey to New Delhi, India on Sunday, after suspending the service temporarily over concerns about poor air quality in the Indian capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">UA Flight 82 had been canceled on Friday and Saturday, data from flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed, while the airline\u2019s website said it had waiver policies in place for passengers traveling to, from or through Delhi until Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">UA Flight 82 has resumed operations, but \u201cwe will continue to monitor conditions over the next few days\u201d, a spokesman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The third-largest U.S carrier is monitoring advisories as the New Delhi region remains under a public health emergency, and is coordinating with respective government agencies, the United Airlines spokesman had earlier told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Last week, New Delhi declared a pollution emergency as toxic smog hung over the city for days, with tourism operators reporting cancellation of bookings for the Christmas holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">U.S. rivals Delta Air Lines Inc and American Airlines Group Inc said they do not operate flights to New Delhi, while several Asian airlines contacted by Reuters said they had not canceled flights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Verisk Maplecroft, a risk consultancy, says India has the worst air quality out of a list of 198 countries it measures, and that New Delhi ranks among the world\u2019s top 10 most polluted cities with many urban areas around the capital also among those with the worst air quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cAt the national level, India tops the index rankings (i.e. the country with the worst air quality), followed by Bangladesh and Thailand,\u201d said Richard Hewston, Verisk Maplecroft\u2019s global head of environment and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The company\u2019s Air Quality Index assesses the atmospheric concentrations of fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers, known as PM 2.5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A U.S. embassy measure of PM 2.5 showed a reading of 481 in New Delhi on Monday morning, local time. 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