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Indian airlines cancelled astir 350 flights connected Sunday (March 1, 2026), with Air India suspending 20 further long-haul services to European destinations, including London, Zurich, Milan, Frankfurt and Copenhagen.
The cancellations adhd to the implicit suspension of flights by each Indian carriers to 11 countries successful West Asia, pursuing aerial strikes successful the portion successful the aftermath of the warfare betwixt Israel-U.S. and Iran and an urgent advisory issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) valid until March 2.
Air India connected Sunday (March 1, 2026) announced 20 further formation cancellations crossed Europe, taking the full fig of its long-haul and ultra-long-haul services, implicit and supra the Gulf flights, scrapped for the time to 48. This includes 28 earlier cancellations affecting routes to the U.S., Canada and Europe.
As aerial travellers were near stranded astatine immoderate of the world’s biggest transit airports successful the region, the UAE’s aviation regulator, General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) announced that the State would screen each accommodation and sustenance costs for the affected and stranded passengers, ensuring continued proviso of indispensable services arsenic flights remained suspended, according to Khaleej Times.
Authorities successful Dubai and Abu Dhabi person instructed hotels to accommodate guests incapable to depart owed to the disruption.
In Dubai, the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism issued a ceremonial directive to edifice managers, asking them to let affected guests to widen their enactment connected the aforesaid presumption arsenic successful their archetypal bookings.
In Abu Dhabi, authorities issued a parallel bid that goes a measurement further, confirming that the authorities would carnivore the accommodation costs for stranded guests, according to section media reports.
The Embassy of India successful Muscat, Oman issued a nationalist announcement informing that Indian citizens successful Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE), who clasp valid nonmigratory cards, were eligible for a visa connected arrival, enabling them to participate Oman and question impermanent shelter.
The advisory added that Indian passport holders with a valid visa oregon residence licence from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Japan and Schengen countries are besides eligible for a visa connected arrival, allowing introduction into Oman for up to 10 days without a pre-arranged visa.
Other travellers whitethorn use for an e-visa done an authorised question agency.
