Bahrain, Egypt, UAE & Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. Qatar aircraft ban
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Bahrain, Egypt, UAE & Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. Qatar aircraft ban
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt are accusing Qatar of creating instability in the region and funding terror groups.
Qatari Aircraft will be banned from overflying these countries.
Qatari Aircraft will be banned from overflying these countries.
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Definitely not good for QR. Expect short term chaos followed by recriminations , apologies then quid pro quo then back to a " new " normal. Meanwhile , expect the Yanks and U.K. to be playing both sides as usual. This has the POTUS's attention , well maybe. The Shia - Sunni proxy kerfuffle continues unabated. All it will take is an unfortunate loss of face incident and the Gulf gets crazy. Oil price likely to skyrocket. Next the Iranians will ban GF and EK. Time for the popcorn.
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I think a lot of what has been written here re overflying anywhere can be discoiunted.
As I write, Planefinder shows 10 of Qatar's aircraft overhead Saudi Arabia, 9 overhead UAE, 8 overhead Iraq etc.
1 of those over Saudi is headed for Luxor, Egypt. Others will be routing across Egypt en route to Spain. Those overflying Iraq are mainly bound for Europe, and appear to be routing via Syria.
So, to sum up; nothing is happening with Qatari flights.
As I write, Planefinder shows 10 of Qatar's aircraft overhead Saudi Arabia, 9 overhead UAE, 8 overhead Iraq etc.
1 of those over Saudi is headed for Luxor, Egypt. Others will be routing across Egypt en route to Spain. Those overflying Iraq are mainly bound for Europe, and appear to be routing via Syria.
So, to sum up; nothing is happening with Qatari flights.
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Originally Posted by KelvinD
I think a lot of what has been written here re overflying anywhere can be discoiunted.
As I write, Planefinder shows 10 of Qatar's aircraft overhead Saudi Arabia, 9 overhead UAE, 8 overhead Iraq etc.
1 of those over Saudi is headed for Luxor, Egypt. Others will be routing across Egypt en route to Spain. Those overflying Iraq are mainly bound for Europe, and appear to be routing via Syria.
So, to sum up; nothing is happening with Qatari flights.
As I write, Planefinder shows 10 of Qatar's aircraft overhead Saudi Arabia, 9 overhead UAE, 8 overhead Iraq etc.
1 of those over Saudi is headed for Luxor, Egypt. Others will be routing across Egypt en route to Spain. Those overflying Iraq are mainly bound for Europe, and appear to be routing via Syria.
So, to sum up; nothing is happening with Qatari flights.
QR don't overfly Iraq, so any flight in Iraq airspace is landing in Iraq. Same with Syria, Syrian airspace is Prohibited for our Ops.
With that sort of info, you must be a CNN reporter.
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Originally Posted by KelvinD
I think a lot of what has been written here re overflying anywhere can be discoiunted.
As I write, Planefinder shows 10 of Qatar's aircraft overhead Saudi Arabia, 9 overhead UAE, 8 overhead Iraq etc.
1 of those over Saudi is headed for Luxor, Egypt. Others will be routing across Egypt en route to Spain. Those overflying Iraq are mainly bound for Europe, and appear to be routing via Syria.
So, to sum up; nothing is happening with Qatari flights.
As I write, Planefinder shows 10 of Qatar's aircraft overhead Saudi Arabia, 9 overhead UAE, 8 overhead Iraq etc.
1 of those over Saudi is headed for Luxor, Egypt. Others will be routing across Egypt en route to Spain. Those overflying Iraq are mainly bound for Europe, and appear to be routing via Syria.
So, to sum up; nothing is happening with Qatari flights.
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Originally Posted by IBE8720
FYI
QR don't overfly Iraq, so any flight in Iraq airspace is landing in Iraq. Same with Syria, Syrian airspace is Prohibited for our Ops.
With that sort of info, you must be a CNN reporter.
QR don't overfly Iraq, so any flight in Iraq airspace is landing in Iraq. Same with Syria, Syrian airspace is Prohibited for our Ops.
With that sort of info, you must be a CNN reporter.
) going up the western border of Iran. Don't see any QR's over Syria.A couple of airspace closures could sure mess things up though...
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Originally Posted by Hectopascal11224
QR contingency Plan to reroute all flights bound to Europe and North America to fly South West over Yamani FIR through HAAB, HSSS, HLLT to the Euro Control points of entry according to QR DOH OPS
And considering Ops in Libyan airspace are prohibited? Plan B guys?
edited-: QR Ops are already banned through Yemeni Airspace and has been for over 2 years. So before we even get to the prohibited airspace we still have to fly through the closed Saudi airspace.
Last edited by IBE8720; 5th Jun 2017 at 07:49. Reason: Correct misinformation from CNN reporters
