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The Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, has banned the United States of America, USA, Aircraft from Iraq and Iran airspace, following a retaliatory attack by Iran.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Iran launched more than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi bases which house US troops.
Reports suggest that there are no casualties, as early warnings were given to troops to reach shelters before the missiles struck.
The attack was in retaliation by Iran for the killing of its General, Qassem Soeimanni, last week, in Baghdad, by a US airstrike.
According to Reuters, the FAA said that the airspace ban from Iraq, Iran, the Gulf of Oman, and the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia, is “due to heightened Military activities and increased political tension in the Middle-East, which present an inadvertent risk to US civil aviation operations”.
Prior to the latest ban, warnings had already been issued by the FAA, prohibiting US carriers from “flying below 26,000 feet over Iraq, and from flying over an area of Iranian airspace above the Gulf and Gulf of Oman”.
Many airlines including Transport Canada, Singapore Airlines Ltd, Malaysia Airlines, Taiwan’s China Airlines, Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, Korean and Thai Airlines, are all said to be avoiding that airspace and rerouting their flights.
Reuters also reported that “the coordination team operated by International Air Transport Association, IATA, and the International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO, was activated as a “standard precautionary measure”, in the event that contingency measures are required by airlines”.
