4 airlines suspend flights to Riyadh

New Delhi: Air India, Air India Express, Akasa Air, and IndiGo have suspended or altered flights to Riyadh. Air India Express operates 16 weekly flights to Riyadh from Bengaluru, Kochi, Kannur and Kozhikode.

Air India has also cancelled its services to and from Riyadh till October 10.

An airline pilot was among three Saudi citizens killed in attacks targeting Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia aircraft, the kingdom's civil aviation authority said on Friday.

Several people "of different nationalities" were wounded. The attacks were the deadliest in Saudi Arabia since the kingdom and allied forces in neighbouring Yemen launched a major military offensive against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels last weekend. They also marked a significant escalation on the latest front in the Iran war, which has kept oil prices and financial markets volatile. UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg was scheduled to brief the Security Council on developments in Yemen later on Friday. By Friday afternoon, at least 124 flights to and from Riyadh had been cancelled after hundreds more were cancelled a day earlier, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. Pakistan International Airlines has also

suspended flights to Riyadh because of the evolving situation in the Middle East, an airline spokesman said.

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