Travelers stranded in Middle Eastern airspace closures as a result of the US-Israel-Iran dispute may find some respite as a number of foreign airlines cautiously resumed a limited number of flights from the United Arab Emirates on Monday.
Budget airline Flydubai and long-haul airlines Etihad Airways and Emirates, with bases in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, announced they will run a few flights from the nation, where air travel was halted on Saturday.
During what it described as a “limited resumption of operations,” the government of Dubai instructed travelers to only proceed to airports if they were informed personally. According to flight tracking website FlightAware, over half of the flights to and from Abu Dhabi and over 80% of the planes planned to and from Dubai were still canceled.
More than 2,000 flights to and from seven major airports in the Gulf region—Dubai International, Hamad International Airport in Doha, Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah International Airport, Kuwait International Airport, Bahrain International Airport, and Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International—had been canceled, according to a post made on X on Monday by Flightradar24.
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