New Delhi: Afghanistan Airspace has been closed for commercial flights, from and over the country starting Monday (August 16) morning (Indian time), leaving several Indians waiting to go home in the Indian air stranded in Kabul and force the airline while flying between India And the West from now on.
Only military aircraft can now fly to and from Kabul, the only airport that is kept in the country, until this restriction remains.
Minister of Kabul Airspace – which covers all countries – as “uncontrolled”, the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) on Monday issued two notices to Airmen (Notam) suggesting commercial commercial aircraft (overflying) to divert routes and declare the civilian side of the Kabul airport closed Until further notice.
From the Indian perspective, this sudden step means that Air India cannot operate a flight back Delhi-kabul on Monday that flew more than 160 people.
“Afghanistan is not as big as Pakistan.
Flight from Delhi, and say, London or New York can go Pakistan-Iran-Turkey and then go beyond the previous Pakistan-Afghanistan-Turkmenistan route.
AS NonStops will remain direct and do not take the termination of enroute fuel.
The fleet time difference will be between 20 minutes to 1.5 hours, depending on other factors such as wind, for flights between India and West, “said the senior pilot.
International flights between Southeast Asia such as to and from Singapore and West will also be affected.
On Monday, Ai’s US-Delhi Enroute without stopping had to return the route at the last minute.
Boeing 777 operates from Chicago to Delhi (AI 126) will just be entering Afghanistan airspace when closing occurs.
Both this flight and San Francisco-Delhi must divert Sharjah and after filling the fuel there, go home.
The Indian Guild pilot, the Association of Pilot AI, praised rapid decision making by Pilot AI 126.
“To avoid passengers and fees to the company, they chose to extend (flight time) and safely operate other sectors (Sharjah) -Delhi).
More than 24 hours of uniform.
They landed safely in Delhi.
All in work a day for Pilot AI, “IPG tweeted.
A Terra Avia Baku-Delhi is in the Afghan airspace and must return to take a longer route to Delhi.
This brings back memories of 138 painful days when the Pakistani airspace is closed due to too much from February 27, 2019 and all affected international flights must route longer between East and West.
A virgin atlantic flight departed from Delhi for London after the Afghan airspace was closed on Monday afternoon.
This flight (vs.
301) last Wednesday (August 11) took around 9 hours when taking a direct route that was too big Afghanistan.
And on Monday, avoiding the country means an extended trip about 10 hours – one hour.
Vistara said he had stopped voicing the Afghan airspace on Delhi-London flight.
Indigo said that “was avoiding the Afghan airspace since the night of August 15, 2021, and will continue to do so until the situation increases.” Airlines to US foreign including Lufthansa, Qatar Airways, British Airways, Etihad and United also said they were not too excited Afghanistan.
“The flight time to India’s goal can be extended for up to one hour.
The current situation will not have a direct impact on airplane tickets from our flight to and from Indian destinations,” Lufthansa spokesman said.