Afghanistan’s main airline resumes commercial flights to UAE

Ariana, Afghanistan’s main airline, announced on Monday that it will resume commercial flights from Kabul to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting tomorrow, Tuesday, after suspending its activity for almost three months after the Taliban took power last August 15th.

“It is good news that the flights of the Afghan Airline Ariana will begin operating tomorrow to the United Arab Emirates from Kabul and, in the near future, we will also have Iran,” the Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation, Ghulam Jelani Wafa, told EFE.

The official added that although the flights of this airline will operate for the moment only from the Afghan capital, he hopes that operations can soon be restored also from the southern city of Kandahar.

Afghan airlines suspended their air activity in the country after the fall of Kabul and the subsequent chaos that formed at the capital airport with thousands of people trying to leave Afghanistan on an international evacuation flight.

Those evacuation flights concluded at the end of August, coinciding with the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after two decades of war, and since then the options to leave the country have been limited to land borders or the few available flights from Pakistani airlines. or Qatar.

However, Pakistan International Airline (PIA) was forced to suspend its charter flights between Islamabad and Kabul on October 14 until further notice due to disagreements with the Taliban government over its high rates.

In this sense, the airline Ariana specified in a statement published on its Facebook page that the price of daily flights to the UAE will be around $ 550, compared to the $ 2,500 that could be reached in PIA. (I)