{"id":184816,"date":"2026-02-28T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:43:09","slug":"dallas-flight-to-dubai-cancelled-after-air-strikes-in-middle-east-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184816\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas flight to Dubai cancelled after air strikes in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

A daily flight from Dallas to Dubai was cancelled Saturday amid the U.S. and Israel’s attack on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar closed their airspace on Saturday, the Associated Press reported<\/a>. Airspace in southern Syria was also closed, as were skies above Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain and Oman\u2019s Muscat International Airport, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24.<\/p>\n

Planes that were en route to cities like Tel Aviv and Dubai early Saturday were diverted or returned to where they took off from.<\/p>\n

Dubai International Airport alone \u2014 the world\u2019s busiest airport for international flights<\/a> \u2014 reported more than 700 inbound and outbound flights canceled. The airport’s operator said flights were halted indefinitely at Dubai International and Dubai World Central\u2014Al Maktoum International Airport on the Gulf city\u2019s outskirts.<\/p>\n

Among those cancelled flights was Emirates Flight 222 from DFW Airport to Dubai (DXB), which was scheduled to depart at 11:30 a.m. CT before its cancellation, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n

WFAA has reached out to DFW Airport for comment on the cancelled flight.<\/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

Editor’s note: The Associated Press contributed to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A daily flight from Dallas to Dubai was cancelled Saturday amid the U.S. and Israel’s attack on Iran.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73889,102,104,103,5721,31733,73888,73891,73892,73890,35708],"class_list":["post-184816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-cancelled-flights","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dfw-airport","tag-dubai","tag-dubai-international-airport","tag-flight-tracking","tag-international-flights","tag-muscat-international-airport","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}