UAE airlines cancel, reroute Pakistan flights
DUBAI, Mar 15 (DNA): The United Arab Emirates has announced
cancelling
and rerouting their flights from Pakistan’s smaller cities
after
Islamabad put restriction on international flights due to the
coronavirus pandemic.
Pakistan government has announced that all international
flights will
operate only from three airports – Karachi, Lahore and
Islamabad – from
Sunday.
According to Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority’s website,
currently 12
airports are used for international flights. It said
international
flights from Peshawar, Gwadar, Quetta, Faisalabad, Sialkot,
Bahawalpur,
Sukkur and Multan have been halted from Sunday.
“From March 15 to March 31, flights to and from Sialkot
will be
re-routed through Lahore, and flights to and from Peshawar
will be
rerouted through Islamabad. Affected customers will need to
make their
own way to rerouted airports and will receive an e-mail with
their
rebooking details,” the Dubai-based carrier said in a
statement.
Budget carrier flydubai also announced that that it will be
rerouting
its flights from Sialkot, Faisalabad Multan and Quetta.
“Flights to and from Sialkot will be rerouted to
Islamabad from March 14
to March 17.While flights to and from Faisalabad and Multan
will be
rerouted to Islamabad from March 15 to 17. Flights to and
from Quetta on
March 16 and 17 have been cancelled and passengers will be
rebooked on
the Karachi flights,” flydubai said in an update on its
website.
While flights to and from Karachi will continue to operate to
schedule.
On Saturday Earlier, all international flights
scheduled to land at
Peshawar would be diverted to Islamabad airports while
flights bound to
Multan, Sialkot and Faisalabad would be redirected to Lahore
and
Islamabad airports. While Quetta flights were redirected to
Karachi. All
domestic flights remain operational as per schedule.
Moreover, many other countries have also announced
restrictions on
flights and passengers to combat Covid-19. DNA
