Middle East Caution Zone

After the fighting earlier this year, European regulators ask airlines to be careful over Israel and Oman. This is a caution, not a no-fly order: the airspace there is open. European regulators have since issued separate warnings for two countries that used to sit in this group. One tells airlines not to operate in Jordan's airspace at any height. The other tells them not to operate in two areas of Saudi Arabia at any height, and to take care over the rest of the country. Four countries that used to sit in this group — Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — were moved out of it on 14 July 2026, when European regulators raised them to a full warning of their own. The caution on the rest of this group sits well below the warnings on Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, which airlines are told to avoid altogether.