ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has opened a route for flights from India transitingthrough its airspace after keeping its airspace closed in the wake oftensions between two South Asian rival neighbhours.
On Thursday night, Islamabad opened up airway ‘P518’ for west-boundflights. However, not all airlines have started using the routes. Among theearly users were Air India, United and Turkish which routed their flightsover Pakistan, according to Indian officials.View image on Twitterlink[image: View image on Twitter]link
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Two Air India flights taking advantage of recently opened transit routingthrough Pakistan.
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KABIM P518 PG KEBUD and KABIM P518 PG ASVIB now available for transitingflights.141 link7:51 AM – Apr 5, 2019link
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Early on Friday morning, an Air India flight between Mumbai and WashingtonDC and another one from Mumbai to London were seen flying over Pakistan onflight tracking website Flightradar24.
The development comes more than a month after Pakistan shut its airspacefollowing Balakot strike for all airlines. The closure had forced airlinesto re-route the flights bound West and those from West bound East,resulting in massive losses for airlines.