Grounded and Gutted, Main Afghan Airline Struggles After Taliban Attack Image Kam Air employees with the coffins of Ukrainian colleagues who were killed in the weekend attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. Yet the airline, Kam Air — an Afghan phenomenon through and through — is largely the only way to fly in Afghanistan. Image With flights grounded, Kam Air’s main office was quiet — except for worried travelers trying to find when they could get home. The seven Ukrainians were going home, on a Kam Air plane, while paperwork for the two Venezuelans was still in the works. The airline was briefly blacklisted by the United States military, which said Kam Air’s seedy-looking planes were involved in opium smuggling.

Source: New York Times January 26, 2018 22:07 UTC