Flight or fight: How Israel-Iran war and other conflicts have disrupted air travel

Flight or fight: How Israel-Iran war and other conflicts have disrupted air travel

The US intervention in the Iran-Israel war has led to airlines avoiding the West Asian airspace, with FlightRadar24 noting that since the hostilities broke out on June 13, more than 3,000 flights are being cancelled per day in the region. There have been countless other diversions. This is causing massive losses to the aviation industry, which is already struggling from the closure of airspaces because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and other airspace

An Israeli El Al passenger plane is parked at a gate at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv. Airlines continued to avoid large parts of West Asia after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. File image/Reuters