{"id":379652,"date":"2026-03-03T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/middle-east-airspace-closure\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:58:08","slug":"a-5-hour-flight-now-takes-7-5-the-massive-new-dead-zone-redrawing-the-worlds-flight-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=379652","title":{"rendered":"A 5-Hour Flight Now Takes 7.5: The Massive New \u2018Dead Zone\u2019 Redrawing the World\u2019s Flight Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last four years, users of flight tracking websites will have been aware of a gaping hole in the map of the world where no commercial aircraft are flying. The gap in question is, of course,<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"752139\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\"  >Ukraine<\/a><\/span>, with airlines that would normally overfly the country choosing to avoid its airspace amid the Russian invasion. Now, however, a second gap has emerged, with Iranian airspace also off limits following <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/middle-east-airspace-chaos-us-israel-strikes-iran\/\" >air strikes by American and Israeli forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitical tensions have left a gaping hole in one of the busiest aviation markets in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19759,396,476,919,996,1695,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-emirates","category-etihad-airways","category-middle-east","category-qatar-airways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379655,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379652\/revisions\/379655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}