Pakistan on Thursday announced the closure of its airspace to Indian carriers, two days after a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K’s) Pahalgam killed 26 people, most of them tourists.
Executives from India’s leading airlines, particularly IndiGo and Air India, conducted internal meetings to devise alternative routes for their international flights that currently pass through Pakistani airspace. “The new flight paths, especially for services to Europe and the United States, will be longer and will increase our operating costs. Airfares will rise,” an airline executive told Business Standard.
