busiest airport for international flights<\/a> \u2014 reported more than 700 inbound and outbound flights canceled. The airport\u2019s operator said flights were halted indefinitely at Dubai International and Dubai World Central\u2014Al Maktoum International Airport on the Gulf city\u2019s outskirts.<\/p>\nThe situation is changing quickly and airlines urged passengers to check their flight status online before heading to the airport. Some airlines were issuing waivers to affected travelers, meaning fliers can rebook their flight plans without paying extra fees or higher fares.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Escott and his fiance had arrived at the airport in Newcastle, England, only to find out that his direct flight to Dubai on Emirates airline was canceled, leaving everyone on the flight stuck there. <\/p>\n
Escott left to go back to where he was staying with family, about an hour from the airport, but has no idea when he may be able to travel.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one knows,\u201d Escott said. \u201cNo one really knows what\u2019s going on with the conflict, really. Not Emirates, Emirates don\u2019t have a clue. No one has a clue.\u201d<\/p>\n
The airspace closures were likely to have significant ripple effects for Dubai-based Emirates and many other airlines that fly in and out of the Middle East. <\/p>\n
Numerous airlines canceled international flights to Dubai through the weekend, as India\u2019s civil aviation agency designated much of the Middle East \u2014 including skies above Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon \u2014 as a high-security risk zone at all altitudes. <\/p>\n
Air India canceled all flights to Mideast destinations. Turkish Airlines said flights to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Jordan were suspended until Monday and flights to Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman were suspended. The airline said additional cancellations may be announced.<\/p>\n
U.S.-based Delta Airlines and United Airlines suspended flights to Tel Aviv at least through the weekend, while Dutch airline KLM had already announced earlier in the week that it was suspending flights to and from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n
Airlines including Lufthansa, Air France, Transavia, Qatar Airways, and Pegasus have canceled all flights to Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Virgin Atlantic said it would avoid flying over Iraq, meaning flights to and from India, the Maldives and Riyadh could take slightly longer. The airline already was not flying over Iran and said all flights would carry appropriate fuel in case they need to reroute on short notice.<\/p>\n
British Airways said flights to Tel Aviv and Bahrain will be suspended until next week, and flights to Amman, Jordan, will be canceled Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Associated Press writer Adam Schreck in Bangkok contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CARA RUBINSKY and MARC LEVY LONDON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. and Israel\u2019s attack on Iran is disrupting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112,114,5741,5742,115,139,141,140,99,109,10645],"class_list":["post-172926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-national-politics","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}