{"id":75349,"date":"2025-05-23T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=75349"},"modified":"2025-05-23T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:38:13","slug":"pakistan-airport-authority-extends-airspace-ban-for-indian-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-airport-authority-extends-airspace-ban-for-indian-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Airport Authority extends airspace ban for Indian flights"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: In a recent development, Pakistan‘<\/span>s<\/span> Airports Authority<\/a> (PAA) has<\/span> extended the ban on Indian planes<\/span> traversing<\/span> its airspace to<\/span> June 24, 2025.<\/p>\n

According to the Pakistan Airports Authority, the ban<\/span> includes<\/span> the<\/span> prohibition on<\/span> all known<\/span> aircraft owned<\/span>, operated, registered,<\/span> or leased directly<\/span> or<\/span> indirectly<\/span> by India, including military craft<\/span>, and<\/span> should<\/span> be<\/span> strictly<\/span> interpreted<\/span> against<\/span> any<\/span> Indian airline<\/span> or operator<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The ban should<\/span> remain<\/span> until 4:59 AM on June 24, 2025. The Pakistan airspace<\/a> closure, for Indian flights, has been in existence<\/span> for a<\/span> little<\/span> over a month has<\/span> been<\/span> specifically<\/span> ordered<\/span> against<\/span> India in<\/span> response<\/span> to<\/span> blocking<\/span> river water flow into Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The current<\/span> airspace closure<\/span> has directly impacted\u00a0Indian Airlines<\/span>, with<\/span> estimated losses of up<\/span> to<\/span> an<\/span> estimated<\/span> Rs 8 billion. On<\/span> a<\/span> daily<\/span> basis,<\/span> approximately<\/span> 150 flights of Boeing 777 and Airbus aircraft have<\/span> added<\/span> an\u00a0hour<\/span> to four hours of travel<\/span> time<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Indian airlines have incurred additional<\/span> fuel expenditures<\/span> of<\/span> around<\/span> Rs 5 billion over the past month.<\/span> Long-haul\u00a0flights added<\/span> a stopover, of<\/span> expenditures<\/span> of<\/span> Rs 3 billion.<\/p>\n

Air India has approached<\/span> the federal government for assistance directly<\/span> from<\/span> this<\/span> existing<\/span> situation<\/span> and<\/span> stipulated<\/span> that<\/span> a<\/span> ban<\/span> is<\/span> expected<\/span> annual losses above<\/span> Rs 50 billion if the ban is<\/span> in<\/span> place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Air India offered<\/span> a “<\/span>subsidy model“<\/span> to proportionally<\/span> offset its losses from<\/span> the impact. The embargo<\/span> on<\/span> the<\/span> usage<\/span> of<\/span> Pakistan airspace for Indian flights was decided<\/span> in an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Committee meeting chaired<\/span> by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in<\/span> the<\/span> aftermath<\/span> of<\/span> India‘<\/span>s provocative act<\/span> under the cover<\/span> of the Pahalgam attack.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It is important<\/span> to note<\/span> that tensions between Pakistan and India have<\/span> increased<\/span> since<\/span> baseless allegations were<\/span> made<\/span> against Pakistan by<\/span> India<\/span> following the Pahalgam attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), where<\/span> 26 persons were<\/span> killed<\/span>,<\/span> many<\/span> of whom were tourists.<\/div>\n
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Without producing<\/span> any evidence<\/span> whatsoever<\/span>, shortly<\/span> after<\/span> the<\/span> attack<\/span>,<\/span> India<\/span> alleged<\/span> that the attack was<\/span> carried<\/span> out<\/span> from<\/span> Pakistan<\/span>. India‘<\/span>s foreign ministry had announced to indefinitely<\/span> suspend<\/span> the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 and<\/span> stop<\/span> the<\/span> deployment<\/span> of<\/span> the Attari and Wagah borders.<\/div>\n
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Pakistani nationals will no longer be able to travel to India under the SAARC visa exemption. Likewise<\/span>,<\/span> the<\/span> Indian foreign ministry would<\/span> not<\/span> only<\/span> recall its defense attach\u00e9s from Islamabad.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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KARACHI: In a recent development, Pakistan‘s Airports Authority (PAA) has extended the ban on Indian planes traversing its airspace to June 24, 2025. According to the Pakistan Airports Authority, the ban includes the prohibition on all known aircraft owned, operated, registered, or leased directly or indirectly by India, including military craft, and should be strictly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":71896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28972,28971,28970],"class_list":["post-75349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-air-space-ban","tag-pakistan-airspace","tag-pakistans-airports-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75350,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75349\/revisions\/75350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}