India-Pakistan conflict impacts on Shahjalal Airport heavily

Tanjin mahmud Tonu

India-Pakistan conflict impacts on Shahjalal Airport heavily. According to Shahjalal Airport and flight radar data, two of the three Dhaka-bound flights were diverted, but later returned to Dhaka using other routes in the morning. Among them, the Turkish Airlines flight from Turkey left the country's airport at 7:30 pm on Tuesday.

The routes of three international flights to Bangladesh have been changed considering the airspace unsafe due to the Pakistan-India war. Group Captain Kamrul Islam, Executive Director of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, gave this information in a statement on Wednesday.

In the statement, he said that the flights whose routes were changed were of Turkish Airlines, Jazeera Airways and Kuwait Airways. The Turkish Airlines flight from Turkey to Dhaka landed at Muscat International Airport in Oman, avoiding Pakistani airspace. One Jazeera Airways flight landed in Dubai and the other flight returned to Kuwait. He further said that after the route change, flights started arriving at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday morning. The situation is gradually returning to normal.