Taipei / New Delhi:
Airlines, including United Airlines and Korean Air, have reinstalled or canceled flights and a dozen Indian airports were closed on Wednesday after India hit nine sites in Pakistan.
The images of flight tracking sites have shown a long line of airlines passing over Oman, the United Arab Emirates and the Kauwait after the attack, increasing the possibility of a congestion of the airspace. Authorities in Pakistan said 57 international flights were in the country’s airspace when India hit. Prime minister
Shehbaz Sharif’s office said that India’s action “had caused a serious danger for commercial airlines” belonging to the Gulf countries and “lives in danger”.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation of India did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the remarks of Pakistan. In the past few days, India and Pakistan had closed their air areas to airlines in the other. World airlines like Lufthansa have also avoided Pakistan’s airspace.
“If the conflict continues, there is a chance that Pakistan can impose a complete closure of the airspace, as they did from February to August 2019 in similar circumstances,” said a blog article on a blog article on Wednesday.
