Gradual restoration of it air traffic is observed in the airspace around Taiwan, as announced yesterday, Monday (9/8) by the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Taiwan, despite the fact that the China he announced later new military exercises in the region.
Beijing last week deployed a large number of warplanes and launched missile launches near the island as part of military exercises prompted by a visit to Taipei by Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives.
The drills caused some airlines to cancel flights to Taipeibut also in changing their flight routes between Southeast and Northeast Asia in order to avoid the region affected by the escalation of tension between China and Taiwan.
Beijing proceeded to issue special notices to the crews of the aircraft
Beijing has issued special notices to aircrews (NOTAMs) temporarily declaring certain areas dangerous for flight operations so that civil aviation aircraft can avoid them during Chinese exercises. These areas are located around Taiwan. The final NOTAM covered a sector of airspace east of it Taiwanwhile its validity expired yesterday at 05:00 Greek time without being renewed.
China’s armed forces announced new military exercises in sea areas and in the airspace around Taiwan yesterday, without specifying the exact area of the drills, and no new NOTAMs were issued.
Earlier, Taiwan’s Ministry of Transport, as reported by the Athens News Agency, announced that most of the scheduled flights to and from the island continued to operate during the Chinese military exercises that began on August 4, covering about 150 flight departures and arrivals. daily.
The number of flights passing through the airspace of the region and managed by the local air traffic authorities is gradually normalizing after the lifting of the last NOTAM, according to the same ministry in a post on its website.
Some foreign airlines that typically use the airspace have chosen to fly from alternative flight pathsmiddle areas of the airspace managed by Japan and the Philippines, at the time of the military exercises, as the same ministry had announced last week.
Korean Air Lines Co Ltd canceled its flights to Taipei on Friday and Saturday, while rerouting other flights to avoid the area of tension. Yesterday it announced that it had proceeded to restore its flight schedule.
Philippine Airlines has announced that it will return to operating flights to and from Taipei after using alternate flight routes during the last four days of military exercises.
The two airlines said they have not made any changes to their flight schedules since China’s latest announcement.
“However, we are prepared to proceed with adjustments to our flights to Taipei if necessary,” Stanley Enji, president of Philippine Airlines, said in a statement.
Japan’s ANA Holdings Inc said it is running its flight schedule as normal despite China’s new announcement because no new NOTAM has been issued.
Source: News Beast
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