Pakistan opens airspace for Indian airlines |
Pakistan government opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on Tuesday morning, removing the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use its airspace after the Balakot air strikes in February this year. The move is expected to give a major relief to Air India, which suffered a huge financial loss of around Rs 491 crore as it had to re-route its various international flights due to the closure of the Pakistan airspace. Pakistan had fully closed its airspace on February 26 after the Indian Air Force (IAF) struck a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist training camp in Balakot in retaliation to the Pulwama attack on February 14. Since then, the neighbouring country had only opened two routes, both of them passing through the southern region, of the total 11. Other than Air India which lost Rs 491 crore till July 2, private airlines SpiceJet, IndiGo and GoAir lost Rs 30.73 crore, Rs 25.1 crore and Rs 2.1 crore, respectively.
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