Airlines continue to avoid airspace in the Middle East

The “Flight Radar 24” website showed that the flights have continued that the airlines continued to avoid large parts of the Middle East, yesterday, after the American bombing of Iranian nuclear sites.

The site said through its account on the X platform: “The movement of commercial aviation in the region has been as it was since new restrictions on the airspace, last week.”

The website showed that airlines avoided flying in the airspace of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Israel, and chose other paths such as the north through the Caspian Sea or the south through Egypt and Saudi Arabia, even if this leads to a high cost of fuel and crews. The airlines had suspended flights to destinations in the affected countries, but evacuation flights were being organized.

Yesterday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry stated that it had postponed 21 people, including 16 Japanese, from Iran by land to Azerbaijan, in the second operation of its kind since last Thursday, and said that it would organize other evacuations if necessary.

In turn, the New Zealand government said it would send a military transport plane to the Middle East to be ready to evacuate the New Zealands from the region, and added that the plane will take a few days to reach the area, and continued that the government is also holding talks with commercial airlines to assess its ability to provide assistance.