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Global Air Travel Crisis: How the Gulf Corridor Shutdown Exposed Our Fragile Reliance on Middle East Hubs
Global Air Travel Crisis: How the Gulf Corridor Shutdown Exposed Our Fragile Reliance on Middle East Hubs For decades, we have taken the “crossroads of the world” for granted. If you were flying from London to Sydney, Paris to Mumbai, or New York to Bangkok, chances are you’d spend a few hours stretching your legs in the gleaming, marble-floored terminals of Dubai, Doha, or Abu Dhabi. But in March 2026, the music stopped. As the US-Israel war with Iran escalated into “Operation Epic Fury,” the sky over the Middle East—the literal artery of global...