প্রকাশ: 08/08/2022
Air traffic around
Taiwan is gradually returning to normal after airspace surrounding the island
reopened, Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications said on
Monday, although China later announced fresh military drills in the area.
China last week deployed scores of planes and fired live
missiles near during military exercises sparked by U.S. House of
Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.
the drills led some airlines to cancel flights to Taipei and
to alter flight paths between Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia to avoid the
affected area.
Beijing-issued notices to airmen (NOTAM) had declared
temporary danger areas for airlines to avoid during the exercises that
encircled much of Taiwan. The final NOTAM covering a section of airspace east
of the island expired on Monday at 0200 GMT and was not extended.
China's military announced fresh drills in the seas and
airspace around Taiwan on Monday, but no specific location was provided, no new
NOTAM was issued and there were no signs on flight tracking service
FlightRadar24 of airlines adjusting routings.
Taiwan's transportation ministry earlier said most scheduled
flights to and from the island had continued to operate during the Chinese
military exercises that began on 4 Aug, averaging around 150 departures and
arrivals per day.
The number of flights transiting through the airspace its
controllers manage is gradually returning to normal after the final NOTAM was
lifted, the ministry added in the statement on its website.
Some foreign airlines that typically used the airspace had
instead flown alternative routes through areas managed by Japan and the
Philippines during the drills, the ministry said last week.
Korean Air Lines Co Ltd, which had cancelled flights to
Taipei on Friday and Saturday and rerouted others to avoid the affected area,
said on Monday that it had resumed normal flight operations.
Philippine Airlines said it would return its flights to and
from Taipei to their normal routings after using alternative flight paths
during the last four days of drills.
There was no immediate response from the airlines after the
new Chinese announcement.
Temporary airspace closures and route changes during major
military exercises occur regularly around the world.
This situation was unusual in that China's exercises bisect
Taiwan's claimed 12 nautical miles (22 kilometres) of territorial waters -
something Taiwanese officials say challenges the international order and
amounted to imposing a blockade of its sea and airspace.
- Reuters
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