Tension has been seen in the South Asian skies after the attack between India and Pakistan by fighter jets. This has also affected flights coming to Nepal from Europe and the Middle East since Wednesday.

According to Tribhuvan International Airport Office, about 15 daily flights coming to Nepal and 15 returning flights from the cities of Turkey in Europe-Asia and Qatar, Dubai, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East have been affected.

'Flights coming from Turkey and Middle Eastern countries are getting delayed by at least 1 hour to at most 2 hours', said Jagannath Niraula, the general manager of the airport, 'Turkish Airlines flights coming to Kathmandu from Istanbul in Turkey have started taking 1 hour more time when coming to Nepal and almost 2 hours more time when returning from Kathmandu.' Hours more flight time has started .

Currently, Qatar Airways is flying from Qatar to Nepal from the Middle East, Fly Dubai is flying to Dubai, Jazeera and Kuwait Airways are flying to Kuwait, and Air Arabia is flying to Nepal from Sharjah and Dubai. Similarly, Himalaya Airlines from Nepal flies to Saudi Arabia, Doha, Kuwait and Nepal Airlines Corporation flies to Doha, Dubai and Dammam in Saudi Arabia. This airline used to use Delhi air route via Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. This route was short to go back and forth to Nepal. But after India's attack on Pakistan, airline companies have started coming/going to Nepal from Qatar via Dubai, Oman via the Arabian Sea route via India's Mumbai. It's about an hour long air route . As the ships returning from Nepal do not have to enter Pakistan's skies via Delhi, instead of taking the air route of Bhairahawa, they have started flying from Simra via Lucknow to the air route towards the Arabian Sea from the skies of Mumbai.

"Planes returning from Turkey and the Middle East used to use the skies of Afghanistan and Pakistan," a station manager of a foreign airline working at Kathmandu Airport told Kantipur, "After India's attack, the flights have changed their air routes since Wednesday." Due to this, the air route to and from Nepal has become at least 1 to 2 hours longer.

The head of a foreign airline company in Nepal said that the increase in flight time will cost at least 3 lakh to 6.5 lakh rupees in additional air fuel. "Now, the narrow-body aircraft returning from Nepal has to fly with an additional cost of at least 2 lakh rupees for one hour and the wide-body aircraft has to fly with 3 lakh rupees worth of air fuel," he said, "Furthermore, even in the Indian sky, flying for an hour more than the previous rate, it seems that there will be an additional burden on the fare of the air route." "There has been no reduction in flights", Kathmandu airport chief Niraula said, "After the news about the war between India and Pakistan was published, a meeting was held with the representatives of all foreign airlines on Wednesday. The representatives of the airline have said that the problem is not immediate except for the increase in flight time.

Connecting flights of passengers going abroad from Nepal to third countries are being delayed. However, the airline companies have informed the Kathmandu Airport that they are managing the departing passengers on the flight without charging extra charges.

Currently, the airlines going/returning from Asia to Europe are busy in the skies of Oman, UAE and Kuwait in the Middle East . According to Reuters, after both India and Pakistan banned airlines flying from each other's countries, airlines from other countries are not using air routes through Pakistan's skies. Pakistan has not announced a complete ban on commercial flights in its skies until Wednesday. According to Reuters, Pakistan's airports and airfields, which were closed after India's attack, have been opened.