{"id":4668,"date":"2014-08-04T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2014-08-04T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T05:22:17","slug":"icao-downgraded-namibias-only-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/icao-downgraded-namibias-only-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAO downgraded Namibia\u2019s only international airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Namibian tourism federation has called on the government to urgently intervene in the Hosea Kutako International Airport saga, as the current situation is causing untold damage to the country\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The Federation of Namibia Tourism Associations (Fenata) said in a media statement that it was disappointed at yet another announcement that Namibia\u2019s only international airport had again been downgraded.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the downgrade, Air Namibia can no longer operate its Airbus A330-200 fleet from Hosea Kutako until such time as the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) has rectified the shortcomings to the satisfaction of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).<\/p>\n<p>The ICAO downgraded the airport following an audit of the NAC&#8217;s facilities at the airport recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/sun.com.na\/tourism\/airport-downgrade-hit-tourism-industry.69666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Namibian tourism federation has called on the government to urgently intervene in the Hosea Kutako International Airport saga, as the current situation is causing untold damage to the country\u2019s reputation. The Federation of Namibia Tourism Associations (Fenata) said in a media statement that it was disappointed at yet another announcement that Namibia\u2019s only international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,3411,3412,3410,3416,3417,3415,3414,4706,3413,724,3409,257,254,4693],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-federation-of-namibia-tourism-associations","tag-fenata","tag-hosea-kutako-international-airport","tag-icao","tag-icao-downgraded-the-airport","tag-international-civil-aviation-organisation","tag-nac","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-airports-company","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian-tourism-federation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}