Afghanistan Overflights - Now Safe?
Hi folks, not sure where to post this but this seemed best. I am not a professional pilot but training for my PPL.
Since the Taliban takeover of Aghanistan, I've noticed that the vast majority of western airlines flying from Delhi to Europe / USA will skirt around Afghanistan to the north east, flying over Tajikistan instead.
For the past few days this has changed and BA have been routing almost due west from Delhi than cutting a straight line across the middle of Afghanistan to Turkmenistan. (See BA256 / BA142 tracks from the last few days)
The only other airline to be doing this is Aeroflot. I just wondered if anyone knew why this had changed and just how safe it is, especially - for example - in the event of an emergency landing?
Thanks for any expert insight you can offer!