Middle East Airlines Resume Restricted Service and Repatriation Flights Amid Iran Battle

The ongoing battle in Iran has led to mass flight delays and cancellations, disrupting the journey plans of 1000’s of passengers.

Following US and Israeli assaults on Iran launched on February 28, Gulf states together with the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran, Israel, and Iraq launched full or partial airspace closures and non permanent flight restrictions. Flights have since begun to progressively resume via managed aviation corridors in elements of the Middle East, with restricted departures obtainable from Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi.

For vacationers stranded in Doha, Qatar Airways has announced a restricted flight schedule working from March 10 to March 12 with locations together with Cairo (CAI), London (LHR), Istanbul (IST), Mumbai (BOM), Madrid (MAD), Frankfurt (FRA), Milan (MXP), and Moscow (SVO).

Passengers can be contacted straight by their airways if they’ve been rebooked onto confirmed flights. The UAE’s main airways, Emirates and Etihad, at the moment are working with a restricted schedule, with extra routes anticipated to be added over the approaching days. Here’s what vacationers all through the area must know.

This article was final up to date on March 9, 2026.

When will flights resume?

Flights proceed to be disrupted at Dubai International Airport, Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International Airport, Bahrain International Airport, Doha’s Hamad International Airport, Kuwait International Airport, Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, and Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. Airlines are advising passengers to solely journey to the airport if you’re contacted straight by your provider with a confirmed flight reserving.

Emirates: Emirates is now working a limited flight schedule, with flights bookable to 75 locations. These flights will run along with the restricted variety of repatriation and cargo flights already working, which proceed to present precedence to prospects with present bookings. The airline says it expects to renew flights to 100% of its community within the coming days, topic to the state of affairs. Passengers mustn’t journey to the airport except contacted straight by Emirates or holding a confirmed reserving on an working flight. Transit passengers won’t be accepted except it has been confirmed that their onward flight is working. The airline says it’s monitoring the state of affairs carefully and can replace schedules accordingly.

Etihad Airways: Etihad has resumed working with a restricted schedule to 70 locations that’s in place till March 19. Tickets at the moment are on sale through the Etihad web site to a number of locations throughout the globe, with further locations set to be added as circumstances allow. These flights will run along with particular repatriation flights for stranded passengers. Passengers with Etihad flight tickets issued on or earlier than February 28, 2026 for journey scheduled as much as March 10, 2026 might change their reserving with out a rebooking payment on Etihad-operated flights departing as much as March 31, 2026.