More than a million passengers have been affected by flight cancellations since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran over the weekend. I was stranded outside of the country. All flights had been canceled, UAE airspace closed.The Iranians are targeting the airports to create political pressure as they slow down commerce, they slow down business, they disrupt travel, they disrupt the tourism industry. If this goes on for a month or five weeks, that will create economic hardship. I cover airli ...

to help Americans in the Middle East be able to depart as of a few minutes ago before I left, 9 ,000 Americans have been able to leave the region since the start of this war. We have about 1 ,500 Americans that are requesting assistance with departure. We have identified and continue to identify charter flights, military flight options, and expanded commercial flight options, meaning working with the airlines to send bigger airplanes with more seats and a combination of those three things.The impediment we' ...

Since the weekend, thousands of flights have been cancelled in and out of the Middle East as a result of widespread airspace closures following the US and Israel's joint attacks on Iran and the retaliations that have followed. This has led tens of thousands of people to be stranded in what are normally some of the world's biggest and busiest airports. Some relief flights have started flying out, but it's still going to be many days before people are able to get out. In Dubai itself, while many people are st ...

Potentially thousands of cruise passengers in Doha are facing uncertainty after regional airspace closures linked to escalating tensions between Israel, Iran and the US grounded flights across the Middle East, disrupting travel plans and extending what was meant to be the end of a holiday. ...

Indian carriers are emerging as the hardest hit outside the Middle East, as airspace closures across the region amid an escalating conflict force widespread cancellations and diversions https://t.co/RzfGt6fiks ...