File No.3/2/94-AIS

2/6/94-IR

The following circular is issued for information, guidance, necessary action and compliance until the conditions in Kabul FIR are declared as safe for flights by ICAO.

H.S.KHOLA

Director General of Civil Aviation

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The International Civil Aviation Organisation has assessed flight safety issues in the Kabul FIR and a mission to Afghanistan conducted by senior ICAO officials as well as discussions with United National Officials based in that region reinforced concern overe deficiencies in services provided and risk to flight safety posed by warring factions. International Civil Aviation Organisation has commented that under these circumstances the safety of international civil flight operations through Kabul FIR cannot be assured.

In view of the above, it has been decided that an aircraft registered in India or operated by an operator having his principal place of business in India shall not overfly the territory of Afghanistan and instead, shall follow the Contingency Routing Scheme (CRS) for the circumnavigation of Kabul FIR as given below;

CONTINGENCY ROUTING SCHEME (CRS) FOR THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF KABUL FIR

The Contingency Routing Scheme (CRS) described below is applicable to international flights operating between Europe or the Middle Ease and Asia. The purpose of the CRS is to assign routes which will allow aircraft operators to circumnavigate the Kabul FIR with a minimum of inconvenience during the current internal armed conflict in Afghanistan.

The CRS takes into account the volume of traffic between Asia and Europe and aims at distributing the traffic between flows south, west and north of Kabul FIR, Kabul. The CRS supersedes that part of the Traffic Orientation Scheme (TOS) promulgated by India in Delhi Notam 6013/94 dated 8th February 1994 which deals with flights circumnavigating Kabul FIR.

Operators are recommended to file a flights plan along the appropriate authorized ATS routes described, although tactical air traffic control considerations during periods of overloading may require re-assignment of routes or portions thereof.

CONTINGENCY ROUTING SCHEME (CRS)

WESTBOUND FLIGHTS

PART I - FLIGHTS WISHING TO OVERFLY IRAN AND ESTMATING ZAHEDAN DURING THE PERIOD 0200-2200 UTC AND FLIGHTS HAVING IRANIAN OVERFLIGHT ROUTE G8 AUTHORIZATION FOR THE ONE-WAY WESTBOUND ROUTES SYSTEM BETWEEN ZAHEDAN AND BEYKOZ AND ESTIMATING ZAHEDAN DURING THE PERIOD 2201-0159 UTC.

For Traffic Departing from Kuala Lumpur and Singapore:

A464 Alor Setar R325 Phuket (PUT) B579 Nagpur (NNP) G472 Ahmedabad (ZAH) G8 Tehran (TRN) W27 Rasht (RST) W22 Tabriz (TBZ) UJ2 Erzurum (ERZ) and beyound.

For Traffic Departing From Bangkok:

A349 Pathein (PTN) A349 DOPID A217# Jamshedpur (JJS) B209# TIGER G52 Zahedan (ZAH) G8 Tehran (TRN), W27 Rasht (RST) W22 Tabriz (TBZ) UJ2 Erzurum (ERZ) and beyound.

# ATS routes A217 and B209 are available only between 1630 and 0030 UTC.

For Traffic Departing From Hong Kong:

A599 Lashio A201 Gaya (GGC) R460 Delhi G452 TIGER G52 Zahedan (ZAH) G8 Tehran (TRN) W27 Rasht (RST) W22 Tabriz (TBZ) UJ2 Erzurum (ERZ) and beyound.

For Traffic Departing from Delhi:

G452 TIGER G52 Zahedan G8 Tehran (TRN) W27 Rasht (RST) W22 Tabriz (TBZ) UJ2 Erzurum (ERZ) and beyound.

For Traffic Departing from Karachi:

G8WD Panjgur (PG) G8 Zahedan (ZAH) G8 Tehran (TRN) W27 Rasjt (RST) W22 Tabriz (TBZ) UJ2 Erzurum (ERZ) and beyound.

For Traffic Departing from Bombay or overflying Bombay:

R88W SUGID R88W BILAT direct SAPNA direct MINAR R88 Karachi G8 Panjgur (PD) G8 Zahedan (ZAH) G8 Tehran (TRN) W27 Rasht (RST) W22 Tabriz (TBZ) UJ2 Erzurum (ERZ) and beyound.

# The route from Bombay to Karachi will be replaced by the new more direct route via Keshod, when this is implemented.

PART II- FLIGHTS WITHOUT IRANIAN ROUTE G8 AUTHORIZATION FOR THE ONE-WAY WESTBOUND ROUTE SYSTEM BETWEEN ZAHEDAN AND BEYKOZ AND ESTIMATING ZAHEDAN DURING THE PERIOD 2201-0159 UTC.

For Traffic Departing From Kuala Lumpur and Singapore:

A464 Alor Setar R325 Phuket (PUT) B579 Nagpur (NNP) G472 Ahmedabad (AAE) G472W SASRO G8 WD Chor (KE) G8 Karachi G8 Zahedan (ZAH) G775Birjand G775 Mashhad G775 Ashkhabad and beyond.

For Traffic Departing from Bangkok:

A349 Pathein (PTN) A349 DOPID A217# Jamshedpur (JJS) B209# TIGER G52 Zahedan (ZAH) G775 Bhjand G775 Mashhad G755 Ashkhabad and beyond.

Note:- ATS routes A217 and B209 are only available between 1630 and 0030 UTC.

For traffic Departing From Hong Kong:

A599 Lashio A201 Gaya (GGC) R460 Delhi G452 TIGER G52 Zahedan (ZAH) G775 Birjand G775 Mashhad G775 Ashkhabad and beyond.

For Traffic Departing from Delhi:

G452 TIGER G52 Zahedan (ZAH) G775 Birjand G775 MNashhad G775 Ashkhabad and beyond.

For Traffic Departing from Karachi:

G8WD Panjgur (PG) G8 Zahedan (ZAH) G775 Birjand G775 Mashhad G775 Ashkhabad and beyond.

For Traffic Departing from or overflying Bombay:

R88W SUGID R88 W BILAT direct SAPNA direct MINAR R88 Karachi G8 Panjgur (PG) G8 Zahedan (ZAH) G775 Birjand G775 Mashhad G775 Ashkhabad and beyond.

# The initial use of the Bombay-Karachi route will be replaced by the more director route via Keshod when this is implemented.

EASTBOUND FLIGHTS

PART III - FLIGHTS HAVING IRANIAN OVERFLIGHT ROUTE G8 AUTHORIZATION FOR THE ONE-WAY EASTBOUND ROUTE SYSTEM BETWEEN ISTANBUL AND PANJGUR.

All traffic from Europe destined for aerodromes in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines:

Istanbul (IST) VG8 ALRAM G8 Zanjan (ZAJ) R54 Kerman (KER) direct NABOD direct Panjgur (PG) and beyond.

WESTBOUND AND EASTBOUND FLIGHTS

PART IV - FLIGHTS HAVING OVERFLIGHT AUTHORIZATION FROM CHINA

B330 Yabral B215 Urumql A460 REVKI B142 AKKOL and beyond: or

B330 Yabral B215 Fukang B206 Novosibirsk and beyond.

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