Coronavirus: UAE airlines cancel, reroute Pakistan flights

Coronavirus: UAE airlines cancel, reroute Pakistan flights

UAE carriers on Saturday announced cancelling and rerouting their flights from Pakistan's smaller cities after Islamabad put restriction on international flights due to the coronavirus pandemic.. Pakistan government has announced that all international flights will operate only from three airports - Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad - from Sunday.. According to Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority's website, currently 12 airports are used for international flights.. It said international flights from Peshawar, Gwadar, Quetta, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Sukkur and Multan will be halted from Sunday.. "From March 15 to March 31, flights to and from Sialkot will be re-routed through Lahore, and flights to and from Peshawar will be rerouted through Islamabad.. Affected customers will need to make their own way to rerouted airports and will receive an e-mail with their rebooking details," the Dubai-based carrier said in a statement on Saturday.. Budget carrier flydubai also announced that that it will be rerouting its flights from Sialkot, Faisalabad Multan and Quetta.. "Flights to and from Sialkot will be rerouted to Islamabad from March 14 to March 17.While flights to and from Faisalabad and Multan will be rerouted to Islamabad from March 15 to 17.. Flights to and from Quetta on March 16 and