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British Airways and Singapore Airlines canceled the flights to Dubai after the United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran, adding to recent disturbance To travel by plane, carriers avoid conflict areas in the Middle East.
More than 150 carriers, including Air France-KLM, American Airlines and Japan Airlines, had already diverted or suspended flights after airspace in Israel, Iraq and Jordan were closed due to the war between Israel and Iran.
Donald Trump decision To strike Iran on Saturday – which occurs a little more than a week after the launch of Israel, the missiles in Tehran – increased the conflict in the Middle East and brings the risk of Iranian reprisals against the United States.
For airlines, analysts have declared that the latest disturbances add to the challenges for European carriers in particular, because they already avoided Russian airspace for flights to Asia due to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
A British flight Airways that left London Heathrow for Dubai at 9:53 p.m. on Saturday was diverted and landed in Zurich after nine hours, according to data from Flightradar24, the air traffic monitoring website.
Flights to Doha were also canceled on Saturday, while all flights to Dubai and Doha were suspended on Sunday. The British carrier had already stopped flights to Bahrain until June 30.
“Following recent events, we adjusted our flight schedule to ensure the safety of our customers and our crew,” said BA.
Singapore Airlines said that it had canceled two flights between Singapore and Dubai on Sunday following “an assessment of the security of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East”.
According to Flightradar24, more than 3,000 cancellations of theft by the Israel-Iran war, according to Flightradar24. Its data has shown a largely clear airspace on Iran, Iraq and Syria, the flights being rather relaxed through Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
A few days before strikes, American Airlines, United Airlines and Finnair had all canceled flights to Doha or Dubai.
Earlier Sunday, Israel closed its airspace, but the local carrier Arkia said that she planned to resume rescue flights to bring the Israelis blocked abroad once her airspace reopened at 2 p.m., according to the Times of Israel.
Flightradar24 said that commercial air traffic in the Middle East had not shown other signs of disturbance after the American attacks.
“Following American attacks on Iranian nuclear installations, trade traffic in the region has been working as it has done since new airspace restrictions have been set up,” he said on social networks.
