Plight of Flight - Uncontrolled Airspace of Afghanistan , a pain for Flights to South Asian Countries and Far East !

Plight of Flights !

It's continuing till date , If you notice today's (11th September 21) Luthansa "Flight LH8458"  from Tashkent (TAS), Russia to Bengaluru (BLR), india, the Lufthansa Boeing B777F freighter aircraft had to keep away from the Afghanistan Airspace, when the Flight could have used  the  Kabul Airspace in any normal day !

•  Qatar Airways operated flight  landed at Doha’s Hamad International Airport on Thursday, marking the first successful flight of its type since the chaotic airlift of more than 120,000 people concluded last month.

This painful exercise is taking place from the day, when the last American Soldier left the Central asian Country and the Federal regulator - FAA had declared the airspace as uncontrolled.

Carriers destined to india and other Far east countries from Central asian Countries facing tough time due to the uncontrolled Airspace of Afghanistan / Hamid Karzai International Airport holding at the moment.

Since the Taliban storming into the country, the civilian flights to and from the country has been affected big time , though there was a symbolic domestic flight on 4th September flight from Kabul Airport (KBL/OAKB), Afghanistan to Flight to Mazar-I-Sharif (MZR), giving hope of restart of civilian flying activities.

What is the Current Scenario ?

Amid promises of Taliban to resume the Civilian flights in Afghan airspace, a flight carrying more than 100 foreigners left Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, and landed in Qatar on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Taliban leaders have blamed the U.S.A. for the delay in resumption of Civil Aviation, and said that as U.S. forces left last week, they rendered the radar and other equipment at the Kabul airport inoperable.

Taliban said,

Technical staffs , Engineers from Qatar, alongside workers from Turkey, have been working to repair the damage and to come up with a security protocol to enable international passenger flights to resume.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s deputy information and culture minister, thanked Qatar for its assistance in getting the airport running and flying in 50 tons of aid on Thursday morning. 

Afghanistan's Kabul Airport is about 90% ready for operations but its re-opening is planned gradually, a Qatari official said on Thursday.

Not only for the transit flights through the Kabul airspace, reopening the airport will be a vital lifeline for the rest of the world, not affected by this chaos; and across Afghanistan's mountainous territory that depends on the international trade.

On the Subject of Current situation , where the transit flights are taking a longer route to avoid the air space, the additional jet fuel burn and time consumption is definitely pinching the airlines, travellers and freights alike.