The day the UAE skies fell silent: striking images show vanishing regional flights – The National

The day the UAE skies fell silent: striking images show vanishing regional flights – The National

The day the UAE skies fell silent: striking images show vanishing regional flights. All flights into and out of the country were grounded for two weeks at midnight last night. As of midnight last night, a two-week ban of commercial flights departing from and arriving into the UAE came into force.. The grounding of passenger flights was brought forward by 48 hours in a last-minute decision by the General Civil Aviation Authority.. Flight tracking service FlightRadar24 has laid that fact bare with striking images that compare the regional skies today, March 25, and one month ago on February 25.. The image from March 25 shows all but clear skies, with a handful of flights in operation.. There are a whopping 700 less flights in the air in the second image.. A few of the last passenger flights to leave the UAE for a while.. The UAE has banned all passenger flights until at least 7 April.. The 38 countries where commercial passenger flights have been grounded due to the coronavirus. UAE to ground all passenger flights in and out of the country.