ACL Updates on Middle East Crisis

Operations in the Middle East remain disrupted and the associated impacts on fuel remain uncertain. ACL published Guidance on Military action and related airspace restrictions over the Middle East and Gulf Region. see here for the latest version (9).

For UK Airports:

• The UK Government has amended the UK Slot Regulation to provide additional alleviation during NS26 and NW26. Additional guidance related to this provision can be found here .

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For Dubai Airports:

• Reduced capacity is now expected to impact the airport for the remainder of the NS26 season. Cancellations are requested as per the local guidelines.

For Abu Dhabi:

• Airlines should follow Temporary Scheduling Process as communicated by the airport.

 For Oman:

• In Muscat, all ad hoc and repatriation flights must have their slots obtained through the handling agent (Transom).
• Duqm, Suhar and Salalah are operating as normal.

For Saudi Arabia airports:

All other Saudi Airports continue with their normal day-to-day processes.

The airspace remains open and commercial flight operations continue.  For repatriation flight requests, additional approval from the Saudi authorities is required before slots will be confirmed.

There are adjusted day-to-day processes now in place across certain Saudi Airports for the coordination of short-notice ad-hoc flights as follows:

Al-Ahsa (HOF), Al-Qaisumah (AQI), Damman (DMM): All slot requests for non-based carriers should be submitted in linked Arr-Dep SCR format. Unlinked (Arr only or Dep only) slot requests will be rejected, Some requests may require a referral to the airport and may take longer than usual to respond.