{"id":6041,"date":"2025-08-29T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/afghan-taliban-eye-windfall-from-airspace\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:31:13","slug":"afghan-taliban-eye-windfall-from-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/afghan-taliban-eye-windfall-from-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban eye windfall from airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A plane takes off Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 4, 2022. — AFP <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Far above Kabul, the cash-strapped Taliban government has located a potentially lucrative revenue stream: Afghanistan’s airspace.<\/p>\n

As Israel and Iran’s exchange of missiles threw flight paths into disarray this year, the skies above Afghanistan offered carriers a less turbulent and faster route to ply — for a flat $700 overflight fee, according to industry insiders.<\/p>\n

The US aviation authority eased restrictions on the country’s airspace and paved the way for commercial flyovers in 2023, two years after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n

Airspace that had long been avoided — as the country endured four decades of war and shifting powerbrokers — suddenly became a viable option, allowing carriers to abbreviate routes and save on fuel costs.<\/p>\n

But it was not until the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June that the route really gained traction, allowing the Taliban government to potentially rake in millions.<\/p>\n

Faced with shuttered airspace over Iran and Iraq, and unpredictable openings and closures across the Middle East, airlines saw reason to divert course and found refuge over Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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While missiles clogged the neighbouring airspace, “the risk of flying over Afghanistan (was) virtually zero”, said France-based aerospace and defence consultant Xavier Tytelman.<\/p>\n

“It’s like flying over the sea.”<\/p>\n

May’s average of 50 planes cutting through Afghanistan each day skyrocketed to around 280 after June 13, when war erupted in the neighbourhood, data from tracking website Flightradar24 showed.<\/p>\n

Since then, in any given day, more than 200 planes often traverse Afghanistan — equivalent to roughly $4.2 million a month, though this figure is difficult to verify as the authorities do not publish budgets and have declined to comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A plane takes off Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 4, 2022. — AFP  Far above Kabul, the cash-strapped Taliban government has located a potentially lucrative revenue stream: Afghanistan’s airspace. As Israel and Iran’s exchange of missiles threw flight paths into disarray this year, the skies above Afghanistan offered carriers a less…<\/p>\n

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