Pakistan in October last year had denied India's request to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi's VVIP flight to use its airspace for his visit to Saudi Arabia over the Kashmir issue.
India has lodged a strong protest to global aviation body after Pakistan on Sunday denied its airspace being used for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flight to Saudi Arabia.
India on Wednesday has formally requested to Pakistan to allow the use of its airspace for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flight to the United States later this week.
Pakistan Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi: Pakistan has not yet decided to close its airspace to India. PM is the final authority to take a decision on this.
Pakistan's Cabinet on Tuesday discussed the idea of disallowing India to use the country's airspace for flight and the land route for trade with Afghanistan. The final decision will be taken by Prime Minister Khan.
Pakistan Minister Fawad Chaudhry Tuesday said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is considering complete closure of air space to India.
"There has been no change to the notice to airmen (NOTAM) and all flights are being operated as per schedule issued earlier..Pakistan has neither closed its airspace for India nor re-routed or closed down any route for the Indian flights," Civil Aviation Authority Pakistan spokesperson Mujtaba Baig said.
Upset over the scrapping of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has closed a corridor of its airspace. The move will result in an additional 12 minutes by the Indian flights. Meanwhile, Air India has said the westbound operations will not be much affected by Pakistan's decision to close its airspace.
Air India suffered a loss of Rs 430 crore in the four-month period when air space was restricted by Pakistan after the Balakot air strikes, Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
With Pakistan opening its airspace for all commercial airlines on Tuesday morning, Air India said operation costs for one-way US and Europe-bound flights are likely to come down by Rs 20 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively.
Pakistani authorities on Tuesday announced the complete reopening of the country's airspace for civilian flights, nearly five months after the military escalation with India.
In a major relief to Air India, Pakistan has opened its airspace and has lifted the ban on Indian flights. According to sources, flights from Indian will soon be operational on the route. Pakistan had closed its airspace for Indian flights since the Indian Air Force had attacked a Jaish-e-Mohammad training camp in Balakot.
The Aviation Secretary remarks were in response to questions from members of the committee, who were inquiring about profitable and loss-making routes of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). PIA Chief Executive Officer Air Marshal Arshad Malik presented to the committee members details of seven new routes that had been introduced to earn profits.
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday that airspace restriction had resulted in additional operating cost of about Rs 13 lakhs per day while for its affiliate Air India Express, the daily loss is pegged at Rs 22 lakhs due to re-routing of flights.
Pakistan on Wednesday decided not to lift its airspace ban for Indian flights till May 30, as Islamabad is awaiting the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls in India.
Pakistan had kept its airspace fully closed after an Indian Air Force strike on a terror camp in Balakot on February 26.
Since February 26, many foreign airlines have decided to suspend their Delhi-bound flights as it was commercially unviable for them to take a longer route through Mumbai airspace.
In the wake of escalating tensions with India, Pakistan on Wednesday closed its airspace for commercial flights and suspended flight operations across major airports, including in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, for an indefinite period.
Washington, May 4: Ruling out an apology to Pakistan for its unilateral military action against its “enemy number one” Osama bin Laden deep inside that country, the US has said the critical mission could have
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