{"id":2454,"date":"2026-03-04T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2454\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:21:06","slug":"how-persian-gulf-turmoil-is-reshaping-europe-asia-aviation-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2454\/","title":{"rendered":"How Persian Gulf turmoil is reshaping Europe-Asia aviation landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With major Persian Gulf aviation hubs largely paralysed by airspace closures amid the escalating <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3345185\/iran-strikes-day-3-trump-says-iran-operation-will-continue-5-weeks?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran<\/a>, travellers have flocked to direct Asia-Europe routes, driving a sharp surge in airfares.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This week, economy class on most direct one-way Beijing-Paris flights is fully booked, with a small number of economy seats \u2013 plus premium economy and business class seats \u2013 remaining.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Economy seats on an Air China flight on Sunday are already booked out, with a one-way Beijing-Paris business-class ticket priced at around 77,000 yuan ($11,127), according to Trip.com Group, China\u2019s largest online travel agency.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A one-way economy ticket on an Air France flight now costs 26,000 yuan, more than triple the usual price of 5,000 yuan to 8,000 yuan, data from the platform showed. But there are none left for Sunday and only business-class seats costing 51,000 yuan one way are available for Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe Middle East accounts for a relatively small share of China\u2019s international air route network,\u201d said Guo Jia, a senior independent civil aviation industry analyst based in Guangzhou. \u201cMajor China-Europe flights typically fly via Central Asia and Turkey, rather than Middle Eastern airspace. Therefore, the direct impact of the conflict on Chinese carriers\u2019 international routes is limited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He said Chinese carriers could see an uptick in demand on their established routes to Europe, Canada and Australia as a result of the disruption in the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With major Persian Gulf aviation hubs largely paralysed by airspace closures amid the escalating conflict involving the US,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1964,1963,488,1648,383,949,262,1962,1965,1567,1967,1966,54,34,37,49,39,1484,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-2454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-air-china","9":"tag-air-france","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-beijing","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-dilraba-dilmurat","16":"tag-doha","17":"tag-dubai","18":"tag-emirates","19":"tag-etihad-airways","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-iran","22":"tag-israel","23":"tag-middle-east","24":"tag-persian-gulf","25":"tag-qatar-airways","26":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}