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Several countries have placed travel ban on India as the country is experiencing its worst wave of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. At least 9 countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, France, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Oman – have imposed new restrictions on travel to and from India. United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates on Thursday banned all flights from India for a period of 10 days starting Sunday (25th April 2021). The suspension of flights is subject to a review after 10 days. Emirates in a travel advisory on its website says: Effective 24 April 2021 Saturday, 2359 local time Dubai and for the next 10 days, Emirates flights from India to the UAE will be suspended. Furthermore, passengers who have transited through India in the last 14 days will not be accepted to travel from any other point to the UAE. Air India’s subsidiary Air India Express said: General Authority of Civil Aviation UAE has suspended all inb

  The total number of aircraft within the fleet of Arab airlines that are members of the Arab Air Transport Association has reached more than 1,200 aircraft according to the latest available data, and these companies annually carry about 225 million passengers in addition to 7 million. Tons of air cargo. Historically, EgyptAir is considered the oldest Arab airline company, as it became upon its founding in May 1932 the seventh airline in the world. The company began operating its commercial operations in August 1933 with Spartan Cruiser aircraft to operate flights between Cairo and Alexandria. On May 27, 1945 saw the first launch of aviation movement in the skies of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a DC-3 plane that was operated to transport passengers between Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran, and later the establishment of Saudi Airlines was announced, with the addition of five DC-4 aircraft.  ) And another five Bristol (170) aircraft for the airline's fleet later to support the inte

  Middle East Airlines numbers from March 2020 to March 2021. The company - the Lebanese official carrier, owns 22 aircraft manufactured by Airbus with 3 different models and an average age of 7.0 years, in addition to two aircraft manufactured by Embraer that are used as a "businessmen" plane. The company joined an international aviation alliance - the Sky team with the largest international airlines, as it uses Beirut Airport as a base for all its destinations.  According to flight rates, flights to Dubai International Airport are the largest destination, at a rate of 6.1% of total flights (49.1% of flights to Beirut Airport). The company owns: 10 Airbus A320-200 aircraft 7 Airbus A321-271NX aircraft, with the signing of a contract to purchase two A321XLR aircraft 5 Airbus A330-200 aircraft Two Embraer Legacy 500 aircraft. During the 12-month period (March 2020 - March 2021), the company recorded a total of 9154 flights and a total of approximately 25,241 fli

 Rafic Hariri International Airport - OLBA numbers for March 2021:  5 airline destinations account for nearly 44% of all travel destinations from Beirut International Airport, so that flights to Dubai International Airport recorded an average of 43.2 trips, or 11.4% per week, followed by Istanbul's new airport with 40.6 flights, or 10.7%.   Hamad International Airport in Qatar this month recorded an average of 28 flights and an average of 10% of all flights, while Cairo International Airport had 7.4% of flights with 28.2 flights, and finally Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, with a rate of 17.1 flights and a rate of 4.5%.  As for the remaining 66%, it is divided into 289 destinations, the most important of which is Baghdad 3.6% and Frankfurt 3%.   In the final outcome, the airport recorded the total movement of 2053 commercial and cargo aircraft.  These numbers are considered to be an improvement in the movement of aircraft since the beginning of the year and an improvement compa