The US-Israel attack on Iran at the end of February caused chaos for travellers visiting or passing through the Middle East and Gulf regions as airspaces closed.
Gulf-based carriers such as Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways restarted flights in early to mid-March, but many European airlines are yet to follow suit, even after the 8 April ceasefire.
With a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the US and Iran this week, you might expect the number of airlines flying in and out of the region to increase imminently.
That’s not likely to happen, Mateusz Klimek, an airline network planning expert, told Euronews Travel.
“Many airlines that were flying to the Gulf region have used those planes to add extra capacity to other destinations in Asia as people choose to fly nonstop,” Klimek said.
