Overview
- Iran resumed commercial service from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport for the first time since late February, with departures to Istanbul, Muscat and Medina and an Iran Air flight to Mashhad.
- Etihad increased flying from Abu Dhabi and operated 92 passenger departures in one day, a level the airline’s recent data suggests is about 70% of its pre‑war schedule.
- Qatar Airways restored daily links to Dubai and Sharjah, and it plans to restart Damascus flights on May 1 after Qatar’s aviation regulator reopened airspace to foreign airlines.
- Flight‑tracking data from Flightradar24 show a steady rebound since early March, with Emirates rising from roughly two dozen flights to about 389 by April 22 and similar gains at Etihad and Qatar Airways.
- Airlines still route with caution due to drone and missile threats, GPS jamming and a looming jet‑fuel squeeze in Europe that has already led Lufthansa to cut 20,000 short‑haul flights.