However, it said it would continue its flights to Tehran. Lufthansa said it would avoid both the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, as well as nearby land. ![]() British Airways, KLM, Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines said their flights would avoid the strait. Qantas said it would reroute its London flights to avoid the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. There should be no surprise on the air carriers’ part,” he added. This is the logical step for them to take. They should acknowledge that there could be a risk to their aircraft. The FAA had previously held that operators should be aware of tensions. ![]() He estimated that 100 flights might be affected in a 24-hour period. The few airlines affected would simply take northerly or southerly routes to avoid the area. The overall impact of the directive is rather minimal, said Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for the flight-tracking website Flightradar24, because avoiding that small portion of Iranian airspace is fairly simple from a technical perspective. “As a result, there is concern about the potential for misidentification or miscalculation which could result in the inadvertent targeting of civil aviation.” “FAA remains concerned about the escalation of tension and military activity within close proximity to high volume civil air routes and the Iran’s willingness to use long-range (surface-to-air missiles) in international airspace with little to no warning,” the agency said. An FAA map showed that area extending from Iran’s southern border roughly a dozen miles out to sea along the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow connection between the two bodies of water through which 20% of the world’s crude oil passes. The FAA said its warning would affect the area of the Tehran Flight Information Region. Iran had no immediate reaction to the U.S. ![]() Navy shot down an Iranian passenger jet, killing 290 people. The FAA gave a similar warning in May to commercial airliners of the possibility of Iranian anti-aircraft gunners mistaking them for military aircraft, something dismissed by Tehran some 30 years after the U.S. ![]() said it made plans for limited strikes on Iran in response, but then called them off. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk, an unmanned aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 jetliner and costing over $100 million. The Federal Aviation Administration warned of a “potential for miscalculation or misidentification” in the region after an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Thursday brought down a U.S. “The threat of a civil aircraft shootdown in southern Iran is real,” warned OPSGROUP, a company that advises airlines, citing as an example the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 aboard. That could further imperil the bottom lines of Gulf long-haul carriers, which already have faced challenges under the Trump administration. Local long-haul carriers Emirates and Etihad were among those that changed flight routes in an area that is home to major hubs of global air travel. military surveillance drone there and American aviation officials warned that commercial jetliners could be mistakenly attacked amid tensions between Tehran and Washington. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĭUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Airlines rerouted flights Friday to avoid airspace near the Strait of Hormuz after Iran shot down a U.S. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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