Taliban -bound Talibans are looking at the airspace for unexpected

Farly above Kabul, the Taliban government, which has been committed to cash, has identified a potentially lucrative revenue flow: the Afghan airspace.

As the Israeli and Iranian missile exchange threw the flight trails this year, the skies over Afghanistan offered carriers a less hectic and faster route to Ply – for a flat overclight fee, according to industry involved.

The US Air Authority facilitated restrictions on the country’s airspace and paved the way for commercial climbs in 2023, two years after the Taliban acquisition.

The airspace that has long been avoided – as the country suffered four decades of war and displacement of PowerBrokers – suddenly became a viable choice, allowing carriers to shorten the routes and save fuel costs.

But it was not up to the 12 -day war between Iran and Israel in June, the route really won an attraction, allowing the Taliban government to crush millions.

Faced with indoor airspace over Iran and Iraq and unpredictable openings and closures all over the Middle East, airlines saw a reason to divert the march and find refuge on Afghanistan.

While the rockets block the neighboring airspace, “the risk of flying over Afghanistan (it was) almost zero,” France’s aerospace and defense adviser Xavier Tytelman said.

“It’s like flying over the sea.”

The average of the 50th of May aircraft cut off Afghanistan increased to about 280 after June 13, when the war broke out in the neighborhood, data from the surveillance website Flightradar24 showed.

Since then, on any given day, more than 200 planes often cross Afghanistan – equivalent to about $ 4.2 million a month, although this number is difficult to verify as authorities do not publish budgets and have refused to comment.