Egypt asks its airlines to avoid Iran airspace for three hours on Thursday

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Egypt asks its airlines to avoid Iran airspace for three hours on Thursday

By Joanna Plucinska

LONDON (Reuters) -Egypt instructed all of its airlines to avoid Iranian airspace for three hours in the early morning on Thursday amid tension between ******* and Iran.

The NOTAM, a safety notice provided to pilots on Wednesday, said the instruction would be in effect from 0100 to 0400 GMT. It provided no further details as to why the notice was issued.

“All Egyptian carriers shall avoid overflying Tehran (Flight Information Region). No flight plan will be accepted overflying such territory,” the notice said, referring to the three-hour ******* specified.

Egypt’s civil aviation ministry later confirmed on Wednesday the notice was intended to reduce flight-safety risks in light of a notification it received from Iranian authorities.

“Military exercises will be conducted over Iranian airspace on Aug. 7 from 11:30 to 14:30 and from 4:30 to 7:30 on Aug. 8 Tehran time,” the statement said.

The ministry’s press statement followed an unnamed source quoted by the state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV as saying that Iranian authorities had said to avoid flying in Iranian airspace because of “military exercises.”

Many airlines are revising their schedules to avoid Iranian and Lebanese airspace while also calling off flights to ******* and Lebanon as many ***** a possible broader conflict after the ******** of senior members of militant groups ****** and Hezbollah.

“Such a NOTAM from Egypt is very unusual. It is possible that this is an indicator of an Iranian response to *******, and in turn a potentially large set of airspace disruptions – at the same time, there may be another reason,” OPSGROUP, a membership-based organisation that shares flight-risk information, said.

On Sunday, Jordanian authorities asked all airlines landing at its airports to carry 45 minutes’ worth of extra fuel.

Countries in the region, including Jordan, closed their airspace earlier this year amidst aerial attacks on *******.

(Reporting by Joanna Plucinska in LondonAdditional reporting by Jaidaa Taha, Yomna Ehab and Mohamed Ezz in CairoEditing by Philippa Fletcher, Jonathan Oatis, Matthew Lewis and Rod Nickel)

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