Thai Airways has cancelled all flights between Thailand and Europe on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
It happens as a consequence of the fact that Pakistan has closed its airspace.
the Airline’s international president, Sumeth Damrongchaitham, describes the situation as an emergency and has called for emergency meeting among the top leaders within the thai aviation industry.
He goes on to say that, currently, efforts are on to find alternative routes.
It writes the Bangkok Post.
the Newspaper writes further that the situation so far has affected 13 departures to and from Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, Paris, Moscow, Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Stockholm, London (Heathrow), Rome, Milan and Vienna.
According to the Danish luftfartsmedie Check-in.dk was more flights to and from Copenhagen Airport is cancelled on Thursday, like a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok, which is scheduled to countries in Copenhagen on Thursday at 06.35, has been cancelled.
Pakistan closed on Wednesday its air space to commercial flights as a result of the recent growing tensions in the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.
Both countries claim to have shot the opposing fighter down over Kashmir, while the ground forces from the two nuclear powers are shooting one after the other.
on Wednesday afternoon closed also India its airspace over the northern part of the country. It is, according to the Bangkok Post not clear, whether this also will affect air traffic between Europe and Thailand.
the Same day issued the thai embassy in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, a notice, which the authorities have all thai travelers to avoid trips to Kashmir.
the News agency dpa writes that the SriLankan Airlines has cancelled flights to the cities of Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan.
The latest tensions between the two nuclear powers India and Pakistan went to as a-scale suicide car bomb killed 40 indian police officers in indian Kashmir on 14. February.