Airlines scrambled to quickly change flight paths over Iran, diverting to alternate airports, or returning planes to their points of origin in response to the temporary airspace and airport closures following the reported explosions in Iran’s city of Isfahan, according to flight tracking data.
Flight restrictions over the Iranian airspace have since been lifted.
Earlier, Iran closed its airports in Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan after the reported explosions and cleared flights from the western portion of its airspace for a few hours, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24.
Among those that cancelled flights to Tehran was the United Arab Emirates budget airline, Fly Dubai, according to Reuters news agency. One of its earlier flights turned back to Dubai, it said.
An Iran Air flight from Rome to Tehran was diverted to the Turkish capital, Ankara, Flightradar 24 showed.
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