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Amid continued formation disruptions to the Gulf region, IndiGo volition run 10 peculiar alleviation flights from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to India connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) to facilitate the instrumentality of stranded passengers, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Air India Express volition besides resume services to Muscat, Oman, operating six flights from assorted Indian cities.
The United Arab Emirates’ civilian aviation regulator besides announced “exceptional flights” from Monday (March 2, 2026) evening to repatriate stranded passengers, prompting Dubai and Abu Dhabi-based airlines to restart a constricted fig of flights.
“Special arrangements are being made to facilitate the question of stranded passengers. Airlines are deploying further capableness wherever required and coordinating intimately with overseas aviation authorities and Indian missions overseas to guarantee harmless and orderly rider movement,” the Ministry said aft a reappraisal gathering chaired by Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu and attended by Civil Aviation Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha and elder officials.
Air India Express volition resume flights to and from Muscat starting Tuesday (March 3, 2026), with scheduled services to Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangaluru, Mumbai and Tiruchirappalli. However, its operations to Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE stay suspended until 11:59 p.m. IST connected March 3. Indian airlines cancelled 357 flights to the Gulf portion connected Monday (March 2, 2026), pursuing 350 cancellations connected Sunday (March 1, 2026). Foreign carriers operating betwixt India and the Gulf were besides expected to behaviour constricted services.
“The General Civil Aviation Authority has announced the commencement of exceptional formation operations astatine UAE airports, enabling stranded passengers affected by the caller determination developments to depart,” the UAE’s aviation regulator said successful a station connected X.
Dubai-based Emirates and Flydubai, on with Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, announced a constricted resumption of flights, portion advising passengers not to proceed to airports unless contacted by the airlines.
Air India said it was extending the suspension of its West Asia services till midnight Tuesday (March 3, 2026), but it resumed astir of its European operations and each flights to the United States and Canada from Monday (March 2, 2026). The hose is rerouting astir services via Oman, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and has introduced a substance halt astatine Rome connected 2 U.S. routes.
On Monday (March 2, 2026), Air India reinstated astir of the 48 instrumentality flights to North America and Europe that it had cancelled a time earlier, but the Amritsar–Birmingham, Delhi–Zurich and Delhi–Copenhagen routes.
“All different flights to North America and Europe volition run arsenic scheduled utilizing alternate routings implicit disposable airspace successful the Middle East, which is expected to adhd to the flying times,” Air India said successful a station connected X. Its flights to Newark and New York from Delhi and Mumbai volition present see a substance halt astatine Rome.
The hose has besides been rerouting respective North America–bound services via Vienna pursuing the closure of Pakistan’s airspace since April 2025. These see flights from Delhi to Chicago, Toronto and Washington. Its San Francisco services from Mumbai and Bengaluru are besides operating with a method substance halt astatine Kolkata.
The concern successful the Middle East portion continues to beryllium intimately monitored to facilitate alleviation for passengers. Due to the ongoing situation, 357 flights planned for cognition contiguous were cancelled.
We astatine the Ministry of Civil Aviation are intimately monitoring rider grievances…
