It’s not just Indian airlines travelling West which are having to fly longer and incur more costs because of the overflight ban over Pakistan.
Many leading Western carriers are now voluntarily avoiding Pakistani airspace, although they do not face such a ban.
At the end of the day, Pakistan’s aerospace authority stands to lose millions of dollars every month for overflight fees that it charges from airlines using its airspace.
For the last two days, Lufthansa, British Airways, Swiss, Air France, ITA of Italy and LOT of Poland are some of the leading European carriers that voluntarily avoided Pakistani airspace because of the tension between India and Pakistan.
