Operations in the Middle East region remain severely impacted. 

ACL’s policy on justified non-use of slots is in force, and flights cancelled because of closed or restricted airspace will qualify for alleviation from the utilisation criteria. Slot monitoring is suspended at affected airports. 

For Dubai Airports: 

• The schedule has been deleted until 28th March. Capacity is slowly increasing but continues to be extremely limited. Manual slot coordination is in effect. Airlines are requested to submit requirements to ACL at slots@acl-international.com or via OCS. 

For Abu Dhabi: 

• Airlines should contact the airport directly. 

For Oman airports: 

• In Muscat, the airport has advised that with effect from 7th March no additional flights will be permitted except for embassy sponsored repatriation flights, subject to prior approval. 

• Duqm, Suhar and Salalah are operating as normal. 

For Saudi Arabia airports: 

• 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. 

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

There are some residual effects at airports outside the region due to aircraft being out of position. Please contact the applicable ACL team for more information.