Houthi missile strikes hit Riyadh airport, prompting FAA warning to U.S. carriers
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Repeated Houthi missile strikes on Riyadh International Airport have heightened a key vulnerability for global aviation, and an Oct. 11 barrage killed at least 13 people at Riyadh’s King Khalid Airport and destroyed a Saudia Airbus A320 parked at a gate.
The Federal Aviation Administration urged U.S. airlines to avoid the Jeddah Flight Information Region that covers Saudi Arabia, citing a potentially hazardous situation, ongoing military activities and GNSS interference; airspace over Azerbaijan has seen a five‑fold increase in traffic in the last five years with a sharp uptick since the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign of Iran in February, making the South Caucasus corridor the largest remaining transcontinental route at only 85 nautical miles wide.