"The decision was made due to security concerns," DG Civil Aviation said, during his briefing on Thursday.
On October 7, four unidentified men opened fire on a passenger plane at Peshawar airport. The firing took place around 4:30am in the morning and no casualty or loss of life was reported.
Earlier, Emirates and Etihad halted operations at the Bacha Khan following an attack on a Pakistan International Airlines airplane on June 25. A female passenger was killed and two crew members were injured in the attack.
However, Emirates resumed operations soon at the airport but Etihad still has not.
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I have lived 4 years in Switzerland. No flights whatsoever, including international and domestic, are allowed to land or take-off during night, due to the noise disturbance they create for the General public living around the airport. I fully support this idea of banning international flights at night.Good step.
@ExPat: The problem here is that of SECURITY, which the provincial government has FAILED to provide because its leaders are busy dancing in the dharns for past many weeks. Stop dishing out typical lame excuses of PTI's ineptness!
@Sana Nawaz: What good has PTI done other than staying away from governance of the province and dancing in dharnas? Stop trolling a loser's gang!
@Jat: The PTI government has completely failed in brining any Tabdeeli in K-P. The province is running without a government for the past 2 months when the puppet Chief Minister is absent from the province and dancing on the Container of his political party's Chairman dharna. This is the last chance for all PTI parliamentarians to resign from the assemblies, as promised by Imran-ul-Qadri, before they are thrown out by the people.
It is a realy a good decision. They must provide secured transportation and should infact even suspend day flights. They should upgrade the railway service and could ask the Chinese for assistance. It is doiable and worth trying- special railway track for high speed train.
Rex Minor
@Jat: This is the only solution right now. Good work PTI
@ Jat: Airport really need location change and its need of hour. If PTI taking steps to counter any mishap, whats the problem in this ?
Good decision , its good for safety of citizens
Better Safe than Sorry! As a mater of fact: Airlines are not allowed to land or take-off in Western countries after sunset; Due to noise & traffic that disturb healthy and sick people sleeping down on land and have to wake up early for work tomorrow. All that flying Business Time-Loss is pushed to us because of our life style, So we now have to receive & see off friends and relatives at odd times. sacrificing out and passengers' work and school days.
This is bad - now we will have Naya Pakistan only in daytime...