1st April 2026 

Operations in the Middle East region remain severely impacted.

ACL has published Guidance on Military action and related airspace restrictions over the Middle East and Gulf Region – see here for the latest version (6).

For Dubai Airports:

• The schedule has been deleted until 31^st May Capacity continues to be extremely limited. Manual slot coordination is in effect. Airlines are requested to submit requirements to ACL at slots@acl-international.comor via OCS.

For Abu Dhabi:

• Airlines should contact the airport directly with any enquiries relating to operations in S26 until advised otherwise.

For Oman airports:

• In Muscat, the airport has advised that any additional flights require prior approval, and all repatriation flights must have their slots obtained through the handling agent (Transom).
• 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.

Please contact the applicable ACL team for more information.