Qatari Airspace Advisory

European regulators raised their advice on Qatar on 14 July 2026 and narrowed it at the end of August. What airlines are told to stay out of now is the airspace over the waters of the Gulf, at every altitude; over the land the advice is to weigh the risks and plan for them rather than keep away, and flights that arrive at or depart from airports in the area are excepted from the avoid altogether. Qatar has shut nothing — the airspace reopened to through-traffic after the summer's fighting, Doha's airport is running normally and many airlines still fly it every day. That gap between the official advice and what is physically happening is the point: a route across the water here is not disrupted, it is crossing airspace the advice says to stay out of.