Airlines fly over Afghanistan as Middle East becomes greater risk

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Although more traffic has been using the airspace without incident, there is no guarantee of crew or passenger safety if a plane has to land, flight safety group OPSGROUP said in July.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in early July said planes could fly at a lower altitude over a sliver of north-eastern Afghanistan, the Wakhan Corridor, which is used to cross from Tajikistan to Pakistan - opening that path to more types of flights.

Many had started routing through Iran and the Middle East after Russian skies were closed to most western carriers when the Ukraine war began in 2022."As conflicts have evolved, the calculus of which airspace to use has changed.