Editing Ariana Afghan Airlines (section)

===21st century===
[[Image:Ariana Afghan Airlines A300B4-200 YA-BAD FRA 2003-5-7.png|thumb|An Ariana Afghan Airlines [[Airbus A300B4-200]] seen on approach to [[Frankfurt Airport]] in 2003. With [[Aircraft registration|registration]] YA-BAD this aircraft was [[written off]] as a result of an overrun episode at [[Istanbul Atatürk Airport]] in {{start date|2007|3}}.<ref name="Ariana A300 overruns while landing at Istanbul Ataturk"/><ref name="Pictures: Ariana A300 skids off Istanbul runway"/>]]
Following the overthrow of the Taliban government during [[Operation Enduring Freedom]], Ariana began to rebuild its operations in {{start date|2001|12}}.<ref name="Afghan airline battles for the skies"/><ref name="Afghan airline returns to the skies"/> About a month later, the UN sanctions were finally lifted, permitting the airline to resume international routes again.<ref name="Expansion under way as Ariana takes A300"/> In 2002, the [[government of India]] gave the carrier a gift of three ex-[[Air India]] [[Airbus A300]]s.<ref name="India offers planes to Afghan airline"/><ref name="India gifts third airbus to Afghanistan"/><ref name="Ariana set to take delivery of first Indian A300"/> Ariana's first international passenger flight since 1999 landed at [[Indira Gandhi International Airport]] in {{start date|2002|1}},<ref name="Ariana resumes operations with New Delhi flight"/> followed by routes to Pakistan and Germany in June and October the same year, respectively.<ref name="Ariana Afghan back on Western Europe route"/><ref name="Routes"/><ref name="Ariana launches Pakistan link"/> In 2005, [[India]] signed an agreement on aviation cooperation with Afghanistan, with Air India training 50 officials for Ariana.<ref name="Indo-Afghan ties touch new high"/>

==== EU ban ====
Due to safety regulations, Ariana was mostly banned from flying into [[European Union]] airspace in {{start date|2006|3}}, with the [[European Commission]] allowing the carrier to fly only a single [[France]]-registered [[Airbus A310]] into the member states;<ref name="Painted Black: a study of the EU unsafe airlines ban" /><ref name="Africa bears brunt of European Union blacklist"/> the ban was extended to the entire fleet in October of that year.<ref name="EC updates blacklist"/> The ban was confirmed in subsequent updates of the list released in late 2009 and {{start date|2010|3}}.<ref name="Other News - 12/01/2009" /><ref name="New EU blacklist features Iran Air, Philippine carriers"/> In {{start date|2010|11}}, all Afghanistan-registered aircraft were banned from operating in the European Union.<ref name="New airlines added to EU blacklist"/><ref name="EC bans Afghan airlines from European airspace"/> Ariana is still included in the list {{as of|2024|12|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web|title= The EU Air Safety List|publisher= European Commission|date= 13 December 2024|url= https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/3195fabb-7575-4db9-85b9-ec5a77b481aa_en?filename=air-safety-list-2024-12-13_en.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250107125420/https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/3195fabb-7575-4db9-85b9-ec5a77b481aa_en?filename=air-safety-list-2024-12-13_en.pdf|archive-date= 7 January 2025}}</ref>

==== Taliban takeover ====
All commercial flights were cancelled following the Taliban taking over the capital city of Kabul in August of 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Rasheed|first1=Zaheena|last2=Varshalomidze|first2=Tamila|last3=Gadzo|first3=Mersiha|date=2021-08-16|title=Kabul airport becomes 'crisis point' as Afghans try to flee|work=Al Jazeera|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/16/taliban-says-afghanistan-war-over-as-president-diplomats-flee|access-date=2021-08-16}}</ref> Domestic flights resumed in September.<ref name="Kabul airport reopens to receive aid, domestic flights restart">{{cite news |title=Kabul airport reopens to receive aid, domestic flights restart |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kabul-airport-reopens-receive-aid-civilian-flights-operate-soon-qatari-2021-09-04/ |work=Reuters |date=4 September 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210920151409/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kabul-airport-reopens-receive-aid-civilian-flights-operate-soon-qatari-2021-09-04/|archive-date= 20 September 2021}}</ref>