Overview
- A Yemeni carrier is set to run a first flight to Jeddah as soon as tomorrow to begin moving people off the island, the Italian Foreign Ministry said.
- Several hundred visitors remain stranded, with estimates ranging from roughly 400 to as many as 650, including about 80–86 Italians.
- Socotra’s airspace has been shut since a late‑December emergency declaration and the only regular link, Air Arabia’s Abu Dhabi route, is suspended indefinitely.
- Italy’s crisis unit is working with tour operators and the embassy in Riyadh to organize departures for nationals lodged across hotels and camps.
- Travelers report dwindling medications and limited access to cash on the sparsely serviced archipelago, while mooted cargo‑ship transfers to Oman are considered impractical.