Air travel chaos intensifies as airports remain closed, flights canceled amid Iran war
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Air travel chaos intensified Monday as the war with Iran stretched into a third day — keeping airspace and airports in the Middle East closed and leaving travelers stranded. Tucker Reals contributed to this report. In:
Air travel chaos intensified Monday as the war with Iran stretched into a third day — keeping airspace and airports in the Middle East closed and leaving travelers stranded.
Tourists, business travelers and religious pilgrims found themselves stuck unexpectedly in hotels, airports and on cruise ships, with no word on when many airports would reopen or when flights to, and through, the Middle East would resume.
Among the many people stranded were more than 58,000 Indonesians in Saudi Arabia who had been visiting Islam's holy sites of Mecca and Medina during Ramadan. And about 30,000 German tourists were also stranded on cruise ships, in hotels or at closed airports.
Airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha — important hubs for travel between Europe, Africa and the West to Asia — remained shuttered after they were all directly hit by Iranian strikes.
However, the government of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, said on Monday that both of its major airports would reopen later in the day for "limited" flights, several days after both facilities were closed due to the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran and Iran's retaliatory missile and drone fire.
