Emirates first Jeddah rotation cancelled for a third day

Emirates' first Jeddah rotation was cancelled a third day on 1 November, with later flights scheduled, and no interception has been reported since Saturday. Gulf News's list for Sunday 1 November shows Emirates' Dubai to Jeddah flight EK801 and the return EK802 cancelled for the third day running while EK803 to EK806 are scheduled, every Dubai flight to Riyadh (EK815, EK817 and EK819) and Dammam (EK821, EK823 and EK827) and their returns cancelled, and its Madinah services operating, with EK807 and EK808 arrived and EK809, EK810, EK2537 and EK2538 scheduled; the airline's Riyadh and Dammam flights remain listed from 8 November. flydubai's Riyadh, Dammam and Abha flights are cancelled to 5 November, while its Jeddah flights FZ829 to FZ832, FZ909 and FZ910 and its Madinah, Gassim and Ha'il flights operated on 1 November; the list repeats Gulf News's note of 28 October that the airline's website showed no status for Abha, AlUla, Dammam, Jizan, Hofuf, Tabuk, Al Jouf, Riyadh, Najran, Neom, Qaisumah, Red Sea and Yanbu, which does not by itself confirm a cancellation. Etihad's Abu Dhabi flights to Riyadh and Dammam and its EY601 to EY604 Jeddah services remain cancelled through 5 November, and Air Arabia's Sharjah flights to Riyadh, Dammam, Abha, Jizan and Tabuk were cancelled on 1 November.

At Dubai International, Riyadh Air's RX241 and RX243, flynas's XY811, XY209 and XY211 and Saudia's SV552 serving Riyadh and flynas's XY205 serving Gassim were cancelled. Saudia operates its Riyadh services through Al Qassim with coach transfers, flyadeal has moved all its Riyadh flights there with coaches from Riyadh bus station, and King Khalid International Airport runs a 24-hour help desk and stores luggage for up to 15 days. Among other airlines, Akasa Air extended its Jeddah suspension to 18 November and Riyadh to 30 November on 1 November, Air India and Air India Express now suspend Jeddah as well as Riyadh and Dammam to 14 November, IndiGo's Saudi flights are cancelled to 14 November, Gulf Air has resumed Riyadh, SriLankan's Riyadh cancellation ran to 1 November, and Gulf News's list still gives 31 October as the end date for Oman Air's Riyadh and SalamAir's Riyadh and Dammam cancellations with no later date announced; British Airways' one daily Riyadh flight is due from 3 November, Lufthansa's Riyadh flights stay suspended to 18 November and Dammam to 30 November, KLM's Riyadh and Dammam flights to 27 November, Air France's Riyadh flights to 14 November, Cathay Pacific's Riyadh flights to 31 January 2027 and Scoot's Singapore to Jeddah flights to 2 December.

Gulf News's briefing of the evening of 31 October recorded the two drones destroyed over the Eastern Province and the south early on Saturday and the hostile drone destroyed over the Riyadh region later that morning, with no casualties or damage reported, and neither its briefing of 1 November nor its flight list for the day reports a further interception. At the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain on 1 November, Saudi Arabia's deputy foreign minister, Waleed Elkhereiji, condemned the continued Houthi attacks on the Kingdom and the threats to commercial shipping and called for diplomatic solutions, and the UAE's diplomatic adviser, Anwar Gargash, said the UAE hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough between the United States and Iran but is braced for the worst. Residents travelling for Umrah should confirm their flight to Jeddah or Madinah with the airline before leaving for the airport, treat Emirates' Jeddah schedule as subject to change, and follow Civil Defence alerts while in the Kingdom.