Pegasus Airlines (18 cancellations, 190+ delays across Istanbul SAW and Tehran), IndiGo (32 cancellations, 450+ delays across Delhi and Mumbai), FlyDubai (2 cancellations, 217+ delays across Dubai and Tehran), Air China (27 cancellations, 129 delays across Beijing and Shenzhen), and Emirates (138 delays throughout Asia today. Despite not having the highest overall disruption counts, other popular airlines like British Airways, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Air India, SpiceJet, Akasa Air, and Lufthansa also reported significant delays.
The worst affected city is still Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport (34 cancellations, 534 delays), followed by Dubai International Airport (2 cancellations, 468 delays), Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (13 cancellations, 377 delays), Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (12 cancellations, 281 delays), Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport (8 cancellations, 214 delays), Beijing Capital International Airport (19 cancellations, 177 delays), Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport (8 cancellations, 99 delays), and Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (13 cancellations, 21 delays). With just 17 delayed flights connected to US routes across all airports, US-related disruption is still quite low.
The most affected cities today were Delhi, Shenzhen, Mumbai, Istanbul, Dubai, Beijing, Kathmandu, and Tehran, according to the most recent flight data, highlighting widespread flight disruption throughout India, China, Turkey, the UAE, Nepal, and Iran.
✶ Updated as of right now: In Asia and the Middle East, there were 2,171 delays and 109 cancellations.
✶ Air India and IndiGO operations are the main causes of the overall disruption at Delhi Airport.
✶ FlyDubai and Emirates are the main carriers at Dubai Airport, which reports significant delays and few cancellations.
✶ All cancellations at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen are the responsibility of Pegasus Airlines.
✶ Delays are common at Chinese airports, with Air China accounting for the majority of cancellations.
✶ Only a very tiny portion of the overall disruption is caused by flights with US connections.