Taipei/New Delhi:
The airlines, including the United and Korean Air airlines, redirected or canceled flights and approximately a dozen Indian airports closed on Wednesday after India reached nine sites in Pakistan.
The images of the flight track websites showed a long line of airlines that passed over Oman, Eau and Kauwait after the attack, which increases the possibility of congestion of airspace. The authorities in Pakistan said that 57 international flights were in the country’s airspace when India hit. Prime minister
Shehbaz Sharif’s office said the action of India “caused serious danger to commercial airlines” belonging to the Gulf countries and “endangered lives.”
The Ministry of Civil Aviation of India did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Pakistan’s comments. In recent days, India and Pakistan had closed their air spaces to the other airlines. Global airlines such as Lufthansa have also been avoiding Pakistan airspace.
“If the conflict continues, there is the possibility that Pakistan can impose a complete closure of the airspace, as they did from February to August 2019 in similar circumstances,” said Aviation Advisory Agency OPSGroup in a blog post published on Wednesday.
