{"id":4044,"date":"2026-03-02T19:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:59:24","slug":"128950876-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=4044","title":{"rendered":"Air India Express to resume Muscat flights from March 3; Gulf routes remain suspended amid Middle East tensions | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128950916,imgsize-987549,width-400,resizemode-4\/image-2026-03-02t214310866.jpg\" alt=\"Air India Express to resume Muscat flights from March 3; Gulf routes remain suspended amid Middle East tensions\" title=\"Photo credit: ANI\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Air India Express will restart operations to and from Muscat on Tuesday, March 3, following a temporary suspension due to the ongoing Middle East conflict, the Tata Group\u2011owned airline said in a statement on Monday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Services to Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/saudi-arabia\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> and the UAE will remain suspended until 23.59 hours IST on March 3, it added, news agency PTI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"lOvcW vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"k7lcu\">\n<p>Israel-Iran War: AirIndia, IndiGo, Global Carriers Suspend Flights Amid West Asia Airspace Closures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The airline will resume scheduled flights between Muscat and Indian cities including Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangaluru, Mumbai and Tiruchirappalli. The first flight to operate will be the Muscat\u2013Tiruchirappalli service, departing at 1025 hours local time on Tuesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>The statement further noted that many airspaces in the Middle East are closed due to the conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran, which has impacted flight operations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/air-india-express-to-resume-muscat-flights-from-march-3-gulf-routes-remain-suspended-amid-middle-east-tensions\/articleshow\/128950876.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India Express will restart operations to and from Muscat on Tuesday, March 3, following&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1614,11024,11025,724,11027,723,719,720,721,11028,11026,2369,722],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-india","tag-air-india-express","tag-air-india-express-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-flights-to-muscat","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-indian-cities-flights","tag-muscat-flight-operations","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}