Taipei/New Delhi:

Airlines, including United Airlines and Korean Air redirected or canceled flights, and around a dozen Indian airports were closed Wednesday after India hit nine places in Pakistan.

Pictures from flight tracking sites showed a wide range of carriers passing over Oman, UAE and Kauwait after the attack, raising the possibility of the overload of the airspace. Pakistan authorities said 57 international aircraft were in the country’s airspace when India hit. Prime minister

Shehbaz Sharif’s office said that India’s action “caused serious danger of commercial airlines” associated Gulf countries and “threatened lives”.

India’s Civil Aviation Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on Pakistan’s comments. For the past few days, India and Pakistan had closed their airspace for each other’s airlines. Global airlines such as Lufthansa have also avoided Pakistan’s airspace.

“If the conflict continues, there is a chance that Pakistan could impose a full airspace closure, as they did from February to August 2019 in similar circumstances,” Aviation Advisory Body Opsgroup said in a blog post published Wednesday.