Pakistan adds flights, delays reopening of commercial airspace

Pakistan resumed flights at more airports but delayed until Tuesday the reopening of its airspace nationwide, aviation authorities said, as tension with India eased after a standoff that brought the nuclear-armed neighbours to the brink of war. Pakistan shut its airspace last week, leaving thousands of travelers stranded and forcing carriers to reroute flights, but resumed partial operations at four airports on Friday. Two more airports have since opened, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said, adding that curbs were expected to be removed Tuesday. “Some airports are open,” a spokesman said Monday, adding that airports in the capital of Islamabad, the southern port of Karachi, and the cities of Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Faisalabad were partly functional. He did say not why the reopening of airspace, originally scheduled for Monday, had been delayed.<br/>