Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

[Seat0B]

Looking like an 8 hr delay - if it goes at all

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Oops you can see how stressed I am - it’s only a 2 hr departure delay at the moment. Not 8 hrs. I misread arrival time as departure time. I need to get a good night’s sleep.

 

[SCM]

Going to ask again, if anyone has had any success with QR visa via eu 261 in the last week? My flight will likely be cancelled sometime on Saturday evening, I'm wondering how best to contact Qatar about requesting accommodation and re-routing and what to say.

Update:
Not that they specifically emailed me about it, but they emailed saying "there are flexible options to manage your trip", then when I logged in to manage booking, I see that the first leg (AMS -> DOH) says it's cancelled (though the DOH -> SYD isn't, despite it also not running). Is that presumably enough to trigger EU261?

I had a look and neither Emirates nor JAL is currently flying out of AMS which does complicate things. Could I push for a hotel for a week and reschedule my flight do you think, would that fall under the regulation? I'd rather wait a week and see what happens, given there are limited options to fly out of AMS anyway.

So basically ideally I just push my flights 1 week to the 23rd, which I think I can do myself, book a hotel, and somehow need to get Qatar to pay for that, but just clarifying is this is fine under eu261, since I can see on their website my flight out of AMS is cancelled? The reason I say 23rd is Qatar's guidance is all flights to the 22nd.

Update2:
Doesn't seem like it's possible for me to change anything, it's all a bit broken, but they direct you to broken live chat either on the website or app - neither of which works

There is something on the contact page to say call the local number, but as a non-local my esim is data-only, I can't really call anyone. Really stupid if you ask me.

 

[jrfsp]

While the gulf countries continue to limit reporting on the airstrikes etc….interesting analysis…..

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031375081608290692

 

[SCM]

Just a note, anti-missile batteries use extremely expensive rockets, those are not used to intercept drones - they generally try and either shoot them down using air-to-air missiles or jam them using electronic warfare.

 

[Ansett Nostalgic]

Laser weapons have also been touted to deal with drones and missiles.