Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

The other day I noted that Dubai looked to be getting some semblance of returning to normal, while Qatar was still a ghost town.

Here's a snapshot from just now. Plenty of traffic into DXB. Abu Dhabi seems to be picking up a bit, and even Doha has some services arriving.

A few weeks ago, the ME3 were reportedly losing $1.2B per week between them. Looking a lot healthier now.


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DXB down to 1% cancellations (7 for today)
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I noted some Australian flights leaving from DWC unless that was a FR24 glitch
My friend is now at DXB concourse B for his flight to Australia and the same A380 aircraft also operated into DXB from Australia a few days ago
 
Maybe of trivial interest to this thread

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That Doha plot at the start looks really dodgy. Departures clearly exceed arrivals on every day for quite a period. Where did all the departing aircraft actually come from? Other than small variations for parking / maintenance etc., and especially with the volumes involved, you would expect to see departures and arrivals pretty much balanced. I would be more interested to see the underlying figures than just the graphs.

Abu-Dhabi on the other hand must have been stacking them somewhere. The graph looks like around 30 or so more aircraft were arriving per day than were leaving - over 11 days. Thats a lot of planes accumulating.
 
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That Doha plot at the start looks really dodgy. Departures clearly exceed arrivals on every day for quite a period. Where did all the departing aircraft actually come from? Other than small variations for parking / maintenance etc., and especially with the volumes involved, you would expect to see departures and arrivals pretty much balanced. I would be more interested to see the underlying figures than just the graphs.

Abu-Dhabi on the other hand must have been stacking them somewhere. The graph looks like around 30 or so more aircraft were arriving per day than were leaving - over 11 days. Thats a lot of planes accumulating.
I did read somewhere that Doha were sending some planes to some place in Spain so there could be a difference but it does seem high.
 
Also update from Emirates
Bookings through to 30 April can be changed or request a refund.

I have a flight booking for April 22 MEL-DXB then next day 23 DXB-LHR

Am i crazy that still rather fly via DXB, not planning on leaving the airport.

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