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Airlines increase flights over Afghanistan due to Middle East tensions
Several airlines have diverted flight paths away from the Middle East and have resumed flying over Afghanistan, which represents a comparatively safe option, according to a flight data analysis by the Reuters news agency.
Singapore Airlines, British Airways and Lufthansa are among those who have made the switch in light of rising tensions in the Middle East, as fears of all-out war between Israel and Lebanon and Iran grow.
Carriers mostly stopped flying over Afghanistan, which lies on major flight paths between Asia and Europe, when the Taliban rose to power in 2021 and air traffic control services stopped.
“As conflicts have evolved, the calculus of which airspace to use has changed. Airlines are seeking to mitigate risk as much as possible and they see overflying Afghanistan as the safer option given the current tensions between Iran and Israel,” said Ian Petchenik, a spokesperson for flight tracking organisation Flightradar24.
Lufthansa to resume flights to Amman, Erbil from August 27
Germany’s Lufthansa Group will restart flights to Jordan’s capital and the Iraqi city, making use of a northern corridor in Iraqi airspace for the Erbil trips, it said.
The group, which includes carriers Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines and Eurowings, extended its suspension of flights to Tel Aviv and Tehran up to and including September 2, the airline said.
Flights to Beirut are suspended through September 30, it added.
Israel’s government cannot deal with challenges in the north: Liberman
Hundreds of rockets and drones targeting northern Israel last week are proof of the government’s inability to deal with Hezbollah’s threats, Avigdor Liberman, the chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu party, says.
He wrote on X: “Tens of thousands of residents do not know if the school year will start when they are evacuated from their homes, and many factories and workplaces have been closed or moved from the north to other areas.”
Liberman said challenges in the north are too great for the current Israeli government and therefore it has no right to continue to rule.
