Kuwaiti Airspace Closure

● Active Closed to overflights

Kuwait has closed its airspace to flights passing overhead. Flights to and from Kuwait itself still operate, and airlines are separately told to stay out of the airspace over the waters of the Gulf.

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Official notice: EASA CZIB-2026-07R3 ↗ · in force until November 16, 2026

Supporting source: safeairspace.net (third-party aggregator) ↗

Kuwait has closed its airspace to flights passing overhead since 18 July 2026, and airlines are separately told to stay out of the airspace over the waters of the Gulf at every altitude. Flights to and from Kuwait itself still operate.

Kuwait shut its airspace to overflights on 18 July 2026 and has extended the closure several times since. It was still in force when the official sources were last read, and no end date for it has been published. Planes may still take off from and land in Kuwait, but flights that would simply pass overhead on the way somewhere else are not allowed through and are routed around. Separately, European regulators told airlines on 14 July 2026 to avoid this airspace; that advice now covers the airspace over the waters of the Gulf at every altitude, with arrivals and departures at airports in the area excepted and caution asked for over land. This is the strictest of the four Gulf warnings issued that week — the others are advice about airspace that remains open, this one is a door that is shut.