About 2,000 travelers were still stranded in the Thai capital Bangkok on Friday ...
BANGKOK - About 2,000 travelers were still stranded in the Thai capital Bangkok on Friday and it will take a few more days to get them home after flights were disrupted by the latest conflict between Pakistan and India, airline officials said.
Thai Airways International canceled more than a dozen flights to European cities — including London, Paris, Milan, Zurich and Frankfurt — after Pakistan closed its airspace on Wednesday amid rising tensions with India. World powers urged restraint as tensions escalated following a suicide attack that killed at least 40 Indian police in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Feb. 14, triggering tit-for-tat air strikes by both countries.Thailand is among the world’s most popular tourist destinations, drawing more than 38 million visitors last year, about 6.8 million of them from Europe.
Thailand’s national carrier eventually gained permission from China to use its airspace and resumed flights to Europe on Thursday evening.
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