Gofrixty [9 August 2025] – Islamabad reported a cash shortfall of Rs4 billion after airspace was barred to India. The restriction, which ran for several months, led foreign carriers to cancel international flight routes and resulted in fewer over-flight revenues generated by airlines.
The regulator said that airlines had to reroute flights around Pakistan, leading to a “substantial increase in operating costs” for carriers and decreasing the number of aircraft using Pakistani airspace by 40-50 percent. This reduction in traffic impacted the revenue charged by airlines for overflight permissions directly.
Officials said the airspace closure aimed at security concerns and was in response to escalating tensions with India. At the same Pakistan aviation sector and operations also suffered with the move.
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The Ministry of Aviation also re-confirmed that the Airports Authority has indeed commenced measures to ensure they recover their lost revenue. Some of these measures include renegotiating new flight agreements, cutting operation costs andsales pitching Pakistan’s other airports as competitive transit way-station for both regional andinternational carriers.
Lawmakers told the ministry to strike a balance between national security requirements and ensuring a stable aviation sector. Airspace management, they pointed out elsewhere in the same article, is a cornerstone of both diplomacy and accounting.
Industry experts said continued cooperation between Pakistan and India could prevent such losses in the future and boost regional air connectivity.
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