Mumbai: India's airlines joined their global peers in rerouting flights outside the Ukraine airspace and cancelling operations to Kabul, amid instances of terror in both places.
"The ministry of civil aviation has informed that Air India and Jet Airways have issued orders to divert their flights from the conflict zone of Ukraine," said a government statement.
Separately, Jet Airways announced that none of its continue to "avoid the Ukranian airspace,"
Earlier in the day low-fare carrier SpiceJet it has stopped flying to Kabul temporarily because of security issues. A spokesman at Air India said flights to the destination have been cancelled.
The shunning of Ukranian airspace comes after a Malaysian Airlines operated Boeing 777 flight crashed near the village of Grabovo killing close to 300 passengers and crew on board. There have been claims that the aircraft was shot down by separatist forces.
Other airlines IndiGo, SpiceJet and IndiGo don't fly over that airspace.
19/07/14 Sangita Mehta & Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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"The ministry of civil aviation has informed that Air India and Jet Airways have issued orders to divert their flights from the conflict zone of Ukraine," said a government statement.
Separately, Jet Airways announced that none of its continue to "avoid the Ukranian airspace,"
Earlier in the day low-fare carrier SpiceJet it has stopped flying to Kabul temporarily because of security issues. A spokesman at Air India said flights to the destination have been cancelled.
The shunning of Ukranian airspace comes after a Malaysian Airlines operated Boeing 777 flight crashed near the village of Grabovo killing close to 300 passengers and crew on board. There have been claims that the aircraft was shot down by separatist forces.
Other airlines IndiGo, SpiceJet and IndiGo don't fly over that airspace.
19/07/14 Sangita Mehta & Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
