What a difference a week makes. Last Saturday night, a void opened up on the live map of flights in progress on the tracking service Flightradar24. As US bombers struck targets in Iran, the skies over Iran and Iraq cleared. One British Airways plane, having flown from London Heathrow almost all the way to Dubai, turned around and sped back to Europe – landing in Zurich because the fuel and the crew’s hours were running low.
Then on Monday night, the airspace of Qatar suddenly shut as Iranian missiles targeted an American base in the Gulf nation.
