Qatar says taken key step to controlling own airspace

Months after resolving a rift with its neighbours, Qatar can now establish Flight Information Region in its airspace.

Qatar has said that it has been given a preliminary green light by a UN body on a proposal to control its own airspace, months after resolving a rift with its neighbours. The UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has given Qatar permission “in principle” to establish its own Flight Information Region (FIR) in its airspace, the Gulf nation announced on Tuesday. This decision was in response to a request from Doha to withdraw from an agreement signed with neighbouring Gulf state of Bahrain, under which it had delegated its air navigation services.