“A global transit point”: why the war in the Middle East disrupts air traffic so much

Until then, they were places deemed safe, with flashy shops open day and night, planes ever more imposing and numerous, transporting millions of passengers from the four corners of the planet to Asia, Europe, Oceania… But the war in the Middle East suddenly paralyzed the Gulf airports, revealing the extent to which they have become one of the major crossroads of world air traffic.

Some flights have timidly resumed since yesterday at Dubai airport, second in the world in terms of number of passengers (95.2 million people in 2025, which places it behind Atlanta in the United States). But since Saturday February 28, more than 20,000 flights have been canceled out of the 36,000 planned to or from the Middle East, representing around 4.4 million seats in total.

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