{"id":68363,"date":"2026-03-07T03:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/airline-groundings-expose-depth-of-world-travels-reliance-on-gulf-corridor\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:55:50","slug":"airline-groundings-expose-depth-of-world-travels-reliance-on-gulf-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/airline-groundings-expose-depth-of-world-travels-reliance-on-gulf-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline groundings expose depth of world travel\u2019s reliance on Gulf corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restart of operations will be a relief to those stranded but may not dispel doubts raised by past week about key transit hub<\/p>\n<p>After nearly a week of uncertainty, airspace closures and very limited flights, news that hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world were hanging on for emerged: the Gulf-based carrier Emirates was restarting operations in earnest despite the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Those relieved by the restart will include the UK\u2019s Foreign Office, after its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/mar\/05\/delayed-uk-rescue-flight-due-to-leave-middle-east-on-thursday-says-minister\">travails in organising delayed rescue flights out of neighbouring Oman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/07\/airlines-groundings-expose-air-travel-reliance-gulf-corridor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restart of operations will be a relief to those stranded but may not dispel doubts raised by past week about key transit hub After nearly a week of uncertainty, airspace closures and very limited flights, news that hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world were hanging on for emerged: the Gulf-based carrier Emirates was &#8230; <a title=\"Airline groundings expose depth of world travel\u2019s reliance on Gulf corridor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/airline-groundings-expose-depth-of-world-travels-reliance-on-gulf-corridor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Airline groundings expose depth of world travel\u2019s reliance on Gulf corridor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}