How Gulf airlines are staying afloat amid a war that has severed key aerial corridors

LONDON: Up until about 0630 UTC on Feb. 28, air traffic over the Gulf and the wider region was operating normally. The usual streams of aircraft heading to and from Asia were converging over the Strait of Hormuz, joining or leaving the conveyor belt of jets travelling along the waterway between Iran and the Gulf states. As usual, some of the stream peeled off to head west for Riyadh and Jeddah, while aircraft bound for Europe carried on along the well-worn two-way aerial highway, passing over Iraq and Turkey.

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