RiyadhThe capital’s airport cancelled 82% of Monday’s flights, Cirium data show.
Houthi strikes have killed 14 people since Saturday at Saudi Arabia’s second-busiest airport.
Lufthansa halted Riyadh flights until 16 October, Air France-KLM until month’s end, and 7 governments have issued travel advisories.
Jets still cross Saudi airspace and land at Jeddah, though Cirium counts 46.4% of all Saudi flights cancelled.
The kingdom’s flagship investment conference, due in Riyadh this month, is under pressure.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 1450+ reports worldwide
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- lists the advisories by country, with New Zealand's warning covering Najran, Jazan and Asir provinces alongside Riyadh
- HuffPost leans critical
- reports Cirium's 82% cancellation figure at King Khalid and frames the disruption as adding to airline jet-fuel margin pressure
- Dawn leans critical
- details Lufthansa cancelling all Riyadh flights until 16 October and the FAA's caution advisory for US carriers
- Mehr News Agency
- relays the Reuters-sourced casualty and cancellation figures in a Tehran-datelined frame that omits the Iran link
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, HuffPost, Dawn, Mehr News Agency