Overview
- Dubai International and Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International remain shut with authorities telling passengers not to travel to the airports, and Doha operations are also suspended.
- Major carriers have grounded services, with Emirates halting Dubai flights until Tuesday local time, Qatar Airways keeping all flights suspended, Etihad pausing Abu Dhabi operations at least into Monday morning, and British Airways cancelling some services while offering rebooking and limited refunds.
- The Foreign Office advises against all travel to Iran, Israel and Palestine and against all but essential travel to the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, and it is deploying teams and drawing up evacuation options, including reported consideration of overland routes to Saudi Arabia.
- Ireland estimates up to 20,000 citizens in Gulf states and instructs them to shelter in place, avoid land routes, register with its Department of Foreign Affairs and use a 24/7 consular line, with no evacuation plans in place.
- Explosions have been reported in Gulf cities and the Sovereign Base Areas Administration confirmed a suspected drone impact at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus with no casualties reported, as UK maritime authorities logged strikes on two vessels near the Strait of Hormuz.