India's DGCA orders airlines to avoid nine West Asian airspaces
→Airline operations teams must avoid nine West Asia airspaces; fly Saudi/Oman only above FL320
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India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered airlines, effective immediately, to avoid the airspaces of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and to operate over Saudi Arabia and Oman only above flight level 320 (32,000 ft), with any continued operations conditional on documented safety risk assessments and robust contingency plans.
Why it matters
The DGCA advisory is effective immediately and remains valid until March 28 unless reviewed or superseded. Airlines must supply flight crews with current NOTAMs and details of airspace restrictions for flights already airborne.
Implications
- — Airline flight operations teams at Indian carriers must immediately reroute or cancel flights that would enter the nine named airspaces — continuing such flights without documented DGCA safety risk assessments and contingency plans exposes the operator to regulatory non-compliance.
- — Safety and compliance teams at Indian carriers must immediately produce and retain documented safety risk assessments and robust contingency plans for any flights into or over the affected region and must brief flight crews with current NOTAMs — failure to do so constitutes non-compliance with the DGCA advisory.
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