A small number of airline movements have resumed at the main airports in the UAE as local carriers such as Etihad, Emirates, and FlyDubai used a limited approved air corridor through Oman’s Muscat flight information region. Flights late in the evening on Monday, and more on Tuesday, marked the tentative first steps in restoring a civil air bridge to Gulf states in the front line of an escalating military conflict with Iran that has stranded tens of thousands of passengers.
Private flight charter operators and brokers continue struggling to expand options for evacuations from Muscat International Airport and also from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, where most of the airspace remains open despite recent Iranian attacks on the U.S. embassy and energy industry sites. One departure from Abu Dhabi late on Monday was a Dassault Falcon 7X operated by a leading Europe-based charter and management group.
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