{"id":201115,"date":"2026-05-20T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=201115"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:16:46","slug":"pakistan-extends-airspace-ban-on-indian-airlines-until-june-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/05\/20\/pakistan-extends-airspace-ban-on-indian-airlines-until-june-24.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan extends airspace ban on Indian airlines until June 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199550\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/air-india.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/air-india.webp 400w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/air-india-390x220.webp 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Islamabad : Pakistan has extended its ban on Indian-registered, owned, operated and leased aircraft from using its airspace until June 24.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, a Notice to Airmen issued by the Pakistan Airports Authority said the restriction applies to all Indian commercial, military and private aircraft in both the Karachi and Lahore flight information regions.<\/p>\n<p>The ban took effect on May 19 and will remain in place until 4:59 AM PKT on June 24. The restriction requires Indian operators to take longer alternative routes for international flights.<\/p>\n<p>India and Pakistan closed their airspaces to each other\u2019s airlines in late April after tensions escalated following the Pahalgam attack in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Pakistan has extended its ban on Indian-registered, owned, operated and leased aircraft from using its airspace until June 24. According to Kashmir Media Service, a Notice to Airmen issued by the Pakistan Airports Authority said the restriction applies to all Indian commercial, military and private aircraft in both the Karachi and Lahore flight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/air-india.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201116,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201115\/revisions\/201116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}