{"id":24940,"date":"2026-10-28T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/28\/first-direct-flights-herat-to-dubai-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:53:19","slug":"first-direct-flights-herat-to-dubai-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/28\/first-direct-flights-herat-to-dubai-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"First Direct Flight from Herat to Dubai Officially Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct flights from Khwaja Abdullah Ansari International Airport in Herat to Dubai have officially commenced for the first time. This weekly air route is expected to significantly ease travel between the city of Herat in western Afghanistan and Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials in Herat announced that the inaugural flight of this route carried fifty-three passengers from Herat to Dubai. This initiative could reduce the need for indirect routes and facilitate economic and social connections between the two cities.<\/p>\n<p>However, further details regarding the airline operating the flights, the exact timing of the weekly flights, and plans for expanding this route have not yet been disclosed. It also remains unclear how this new air route will impact Afghanistan\u2019s aviation market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herat&#8217;s international airport begins first official weekly direct flights to Dubai, easing travel and boosting economic and social ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}