Afghanistan flag carrier airline Ariana Afghan Airlines has resumed domestic flights on Sunday. The Ariana Afghan Airlines resumed its flights from Kabul to Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kandahar cities, reported ANI citing local media.
Note that Kabul airport had been closed since the end of the massive US-led airlift of its citizens, other Western nationals and Afghans who helped Western countries. Taliban took over Kabul on August 15.
Another local private airline, the Kam Air, has reportedly shifted its planes from the Kabul Airport to Mashhad city of Iran, fearing a chaotic situation arising out of Kabul after the Taliban’s takeover of the Afghan capital. A technical team of Qatar is ready to help resume flights at the Kabul airport.
A Qatari plane carrying ranking officials and another plane from the United Arab Emirates carrying humanitarian assistance landed at Kabul international airport a couple of days ago.
Earlier this week, some domestic flights resumed at Afghanistan’s international airport in Kabul, with the state-run Ariana Afghan Airline operating flights to three provinces.
Shershah Stor, the airline’s station manager at the airport, told The Associated Press (AP) on Sunday that the flights took place on September 4 to western Herat, southern Kandahar and northern Balkh provinces. He said the flights were conducted without a functioning radar system at the airport. tor said three more flights were scheduled today to the same provinces.
