Emirates, Qatar Airways, and other major airlines are cancelling flights and halting routes amid uncertainty from U.S. strikes and a shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire deal

After unprecedented bombings by Trump on three Iranian nuclear and military sites during the weekend, Iran launched a limited missile attack on the American forces at the Air Force Base in Qatar. Qatar, which was quick to condemn the attack, was temporarily closed in airspace a little more than an hour ago.

Airports and sky throughout the region were ready since Israel began the deadly war on June 13 – with a sudden barrage of attacks on Iran, which in response to its private missile and drones. In the days after the escalating American strikes, more and more transportation companies were canceled, especially in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which sit across the Persian Gulf from Iran.

After declaring a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, some of these turmoil is reduced. But it seems that the truce was on the land of the defeated Tuesday, as Trump accused both countries of violating the agreement – and many airlines have stopped selected roads during the middle of the week, noting safety concerns.

The Middle East is the most affected

Transportation companies in the Middle East were severely affected by cancellation and delay this week.

Qatar Airways said its flights were suspended due to the closure of air traffic on Monday in Qatar. Qatar Airways has shared that it is working to restore operations after reopening the country’s airspace – but it has noticed that the disturbances may continue until Thursday.

The UAE has suspended all flights to Iran and Iraq, including those who serve Baghdad and Basra, until June 30. An unspecified number of other Emirati flights were re -directed, but they continued to operate flights as decided, using flight paths far from conflict areas, according to the Aviation newspaper, which added that some flights may be late.

Etihad Airways, and the other from the flag carriers in the United Arab Emirates, has suspended all flights between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv until July 15, and also announced many regional aviation cancellation on Monday and Tuesday – including those who link Abu Dhabi to existence and to Kuwait, Duha, Damam and Mousa.

GULF AIR, the holder of the Kingdom of Bahrain, extended the cancellation of trips to Jordan until June 27.

Many other airlines cancel and delay flights

Meanwhile, Singapore Airlines canceled some flights to and from Dubai from Sunday to Wednesday, noting “a security evaluation of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East.” British Airways said it had suspended flights to and from Doha until Wednesday, adding that it “will keep the situation under review.”

Air India announced on Monday that it stops “all operations to the Middle East region, as well as to and from the East Coast of North America and Europe” until further notice. But the airline, which is still reeling separately from the crash of a plane that killed at least 270 people earlier this month, later said it was working on “gradually” resuming “these methods that start on Tuesday.

In other developments earlier on Tuesday, the Dutch carrier KLM said that its flights will be suspended to Dubai in the Emirates, the leaders and Damman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia until further notice. Philippine Airways canceled several flights to the Middle East, including those that arrive in Doha, Dubai and his leadership on Tuesday and one to Doha on Wednesday. Japanese Airlines said that a flight from Hanida Airport in Tokyo to Doha had to return on Monday – adding that the flights had been canceled after that until June 27. The Qatar Airways flight from Hong Kong to Doha was canceled on Tuesday.

Flightaware 382 air tracking data showed cancellation all over the world after 10:30 am on Tuesday, after 834 cancelors.

Safety comes first

Such disturbances are linked to travel, especially since the central centers in the Middle East often connect flights all over the world – but experts stress that this type of closing of the airspace and turning flights is crucial to ensuring safety, especially if the future escalation suddenly appears.

“The states, the countries, are ensuring that the airspace is safe to pass the aircraft,” Hassan Shahidi, the president and executive director of the Salama Aviation Corporation. He added that on Monday, “the Qatari has completely right to close the airspace due to the threat of the conflict.”

In addition to the Qatari airspace, Flightradar24 stated that the UAE airspace was also closed for several hours.

While the future is unknown, Ian Pichenik, Director of Communications at Flightradar24, noted that it is important to remember the closure of the airspace and the cancellation of aviation reflects that “airlines, air traffic controller and airline are doing their best to maintain everyone’s safety.”

Shahdi added that it is important for travelers to monitor government guidance – such as safety notifications from the US State Department.

However, long disorders can carry more prevalent effects. In addition to the global aviation networks in Snarling, Shahidi confirms that it is very difficult for people who may need or want to evacuate the war affected by the war to do this without reaching trade flights.

At the same time, he adds, it is important for the state authorities to focus on maintaining its safe sky – pointing to the tragedies of the passenger trips that were shot down by the strikes. This includes the Malaysian Airlines flight 17, which was brought down by Russian -backed forces while flying over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people.

“We all pray and urge to resolve this conflict – especially in terms of its connection to the protection of civil air travel.” “We do not want to get MH17, with the loss of innocent lives in a missile strike … we don’t want to repeat this date.”