Recent conflicts between India and Pakistan have caused significant disruptions in air travel across South and Central Asia. Major airlines like Korean Air, EVA Air, and Thai Airways have changed their flight paths to avoid Pakistani airspace after India launched missile strikes. Indian airlines had already faced restrictions over Pakistan, resulting in long detours and extra refueling stops for international flights. The flight tracking service Flightradar24 indicates drastically reduced air traffic over Pakistan, signaling heightened tensions resulting from recent incidents in Kashmir.
Air travel across South and Central Asia has been thrown into disarray as tensions between India and Pakistan escalated into open conflict, prompting major airlines to reroute or cancel flights.
Indian carriers, including Air India, IndiGo, and SpiceJet, had already been banned from flying over Pakistan, leading to major detours and European refueling stops on long-haul flights.
Despite the near-complete shutdown, flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows one Ethiopian Airlines flight traveling through Pakistani airspace early on Wednesday, en route from Addis Ababa to Seoul.
Tensions between India and Pakistan have soared since an attack last month in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people, which India blamed on Pakistan.
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