Majority of the international flights connecting to Dhaka are continuing to shunning the Pakistan airspace for the second consecutive day on Thursday as situations between India and Pakistan remained highly volatile and evolving.
Few flights鈥� schedules were adjusted for changed routes, said the officials of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Earlier three international flights had changed their destinations towards the airport on Wednesday as the airspaces of India and Pakistan were considered unsafe following the Indian missile attacks in the bordering regions of Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday.
Hazrat Shahjalal Airport executive director Group Captain Muhammed Kamrul Islam in a message sent on Thursday said that all flights were normal on the day till 12:30pm.
鈥楩ew adjusted schedules for the detour routes,鈥� he added.
At present the airport do not have direct flight from Pakistan, he said earlier on Wednesday, adding, 鈥榟owever the Middle East or Europe routes are having detour routes, causing one to two hours delay.鈥�
Biman Bangladesh Airlines officials also said Wednesday that they were operating flights by avoiding the airspace of Pakistan.
Private airlines, US-Bangla Airlines, also operate flights on Bangladesh-Middle East routes.
Its officials said that they operated flights to the Middle East by two routes鈥擬umbai and Karachi.
Since Wednesday they were avoiding the Karachi route.