Jeddah airport flights disrupted as Houthis escalate threats
Saudi Arabia’s busiest airport, Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport, saw widespread flight cancellations and delays on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia’s busiest airport, King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, saw widespread flight cancellations and delays on Tuesday amid increasing attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels on the kingdom’s main aviation hubs.
As of 6 p.m. local time (11 a.m. EST), 182 flights had been canceled, accounting for 23% of scheduled flights, while 255, or 32%, had been delayed, according to Flightradar24.
The flight-tracking website showed no departures after a Jazeera Airways flight to Kuwait City took off at 3:34 p.m. local time. The last recorded arrival was a Badr Airlines flight from Port Sudan, which landed at 5:54 p.m.
Al-Monitor has contacted the airport for comment.
