Hello and welcome to episode 288 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with

Jason Urbanowitz. Hello Ian, how are you?

Hello Jason, I'm well, how are you sir?

I'm good, thank you you very polite introduction today.

Well, it's been a week already. Let me say this. It's been a long month.

It's October 2nd, Ian.

Oh, well, in that case.

That's where do we go from here?

Yeah, after what was generally a quiet-ish September.

October starts with another round of Middle East airspace restrictions and conflict zone notices and all of that sort of stuff.

So let's break down what has happened on the first day of October as we sit here on the second day.

Iran launched a volley of a few hundred missiles of various stripes at Israel at local time the evening of the 1st of October.

That comes after ratcheting up tensions.

Conflict notices went out the previous week by the European Union Aviation

Safety Agency for both Lebanon and Israel, israel's ground forces moving into Lebanon

and Iran saying that it was going to do something

in response for the killing of a top Hezbollah commander.

So yesterday that came and resulted in the diversion of 81 aircraft by 16 airlines to 26 separate airports.

Then concurrent to that was the closure of airspace in Jordan, Iraq,

and the Western 2-thirds of Iran, as well as the suspension of

flights to Israel for a few hours yesterday. So where we sit now is no one outside of airlines that have to flying to or through Iraq,

no one that has to, or no one unless they have to flying to Iran,

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