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Qatari overflight rights: Qatar’s international law fights

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Air Services Agreements, Airlines, Airports, Safety, Security

The Middle East is starting to look a lot like Spain circa 1936.  Then as now, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.  That always makes for strange bedfellows.  Like the Soviet purges of the Fifth Column, Arab States including Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have collectively isolated Qatar over its supposed support of violent Islamic movements.  Libya, Maldives and Yemen soon followed suit. Like an icepick made Soviet-red by the blood from Trotsky’s head, the liveries of Middle East carriers should now be painted crimson.  Qatar’s support for all things anti-Israel may have landed it in hot water and that water smells like jet fuel.  Too many weird associations and mixed metaphors?  Welcome to Middle East politics in a Trump era. Imagine what it must look like from inside Trump’s head. The synchronised isolation includes the closing of airspace and airports to Qatari flights.  The legality of these moves, from the perspective of public international air law, is suspect.

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