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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Airline groundings expose depth of world travel’s reliance on Gulf corridor

Passengers from Muscat arrive at Heathrow amid the US-Israel war with Iran on Friday.
Passengers from Muscat arrive at Heathrow amid the US-Israel war with Iran on Friday. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters

After nearly a week of uncertainty, airspace closures and very limited flights, news that hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world were hanging on for emerged: the Gulf-based carrier Emirates was restarting operations in earnest despite the US-Israel war on Iran.

Those relieved by the restart will include the UK’s Foreign Office, after its travails in organising delayed rescue flights out of neighbouring Oman.

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