Pakistan reopens airspace, ending months of flight restrictions

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Pakistan re-opens airspace for civil aviation

Islamabad - The reopening of airspace will benefit airlines flying to India, which had to re-route their flights due to the closure.

By Reuters/PTI

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Published: Tue 16 Jul 2019, 12:00 AM

Last updated: Tue 16 Jul 2019, 10:03 PM

Pakistan's airspace has been re-opened to civil aviation with immediate effect, its aviation authority said on Tuesday following months of restrictions imposed in the wake of a standoff with neighbouring India earlier this year.
"With immediate effect Pakistan airspace is open for all type of civil traffic on published ATS (Air Traffic Service) routes," according to a so-called Notice to Airmen (NOTAMS) published on the authority's website.
An official at the authority reached by telephone confirmed that the change was in effect.
The announcement came hours after United Airlines said it was extending the suspension of its flights from the United States to Delhi and Mumbai in India until October 26, citing continued restrictions of Pakistani airspace.

 The move is expected to give relief to Air India, which had to re-route its international flights due to the closure of Pakistani airspace.
Pakistan had fully closed its airspace on February 26 after the Indian Air Force (IAF) struck a training camp in Balakot in retaliation to the Pulwama attack on February 14.
 
 


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