Direct flights between Afghanistan and UK 'to return'

Direct flights between Britain and Afghanistan could be about to resume, a decade after an Afghan national airline plane was hijacked and diverted to Stansted. Ben Farmer reports for The Telegraph from Kabul.

Ariana is currently banned from UK airspace by a European Union-wide aviation blacklist after failing safety spot checks but hopes to resume flights to Heathrow next spring.

It is looking to clear its name after buying two new planes and finding a multi-million pound injection of funds.

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