{"id":30040,"date":"2026-03-04T02:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30040"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:21:32","slug":"paa-says-pakistans-airspace-remains-completely-available-for-civil-aviation-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30040","title":{"rendered":"PAA says Pakistan\u2019s airspace remains \u2018completely available\u2019 for civil aviation traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) said on Tuesday that the country\u2019s airspace remained \u201cfully open, safe, and completely available for all civil aviation traffic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clarification came after the authority issued a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blob:https\/\/paa.gov.pk\/04c3c3d6-a5af-47dc-8335-4d5241825cdf\">notice to airmen<\/a>&nbsp;(Notam) regarding specific air routes in Karachi and Lahore regions, saying they would remain unavailable from March 3 to March 31 between 9am and 3 pm daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Notam said \u201cselected ATS (air traffic service) routes segments\u201d in the Karachi (OPKR) and Lahore (OPLR) flight information regions (FIRs) would remain unavailable during the above-mentioned period due to \u201coperational reasons\u201d.This screengrab shows the Notam issued by the PAA on March 3. 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a subsequent statement, the PAA said that the Notam was a \u201croutine operational advisory\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt announces the temporary unavailability of specific ATS route segments within the Karachi and Lahore FIRs during daily windows (0900-1500 PKT) from March 3 to 31. These segments are closed from ground level to unlimited altitude due to standard operational reasons,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPakistan\u2019s airspace as a whole remains fully open, safe, and completely available for all civil aviation traffic, including commercial flights. Air traffic services continue without hindrance, and alternative routing options are available and routinely used for all affected flows,\u201d the authority said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo restrictions have been imposed on commercial operations, arrivals, departures, or overflights across Pakistan. Our air traffic controllers and airport teams are fully operational and managing traffic normally,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, no commercial flight was operated between the Middle East and Islamabad International Airport (IIAP) on Monday, except for an Etihad Airways flight that landed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the airport information counter, Etihad Airways flight EY300 from Abu Dhabi arrived at IIAP at 7:30 pm. However, all flights from Dubai, Sharjah, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat were cancelled as no flights departed these countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, PIA flights to and from Saudi Arabia remain operational, a spokesman for PIA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1977818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1977818<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) said on Tuesday that the country\u2019s airspace remained \u201cfully open, safe, and completely available for all civil aviation traffic\u201d. The clarification came after the authority issued a&nbsp;notice to airmen&nbsp;(Notam) regarding specific air routes in Karachi and Lahore regions, saying they would remain unavailable from March 3 to March 31 between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[27539,27540,27542,1360,483,27541],"class_list":["post-30040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-air-space","tag-airspace-open-for-civila-aviation","tag-iran-israel-america-war","tag-middle-east-5","tag-pakistan-2","tag-tension-in-the-region-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30043,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040\/revisions\/30043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}