Thousands of flights cancelled as world faces worst travel chaos since covid pandemic

Hundreds of thousands of passengers remain stranded, with key air hubs in Middle East closed amid fallout from US-Israeli strikes on Iran

A plume of smoke caused by an Iranian strike is seen in the background as Emirates planes are parked at Dubai International Airport on Sunday. Picture: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri

Thousands more flights were cancelled on Monday as the turmoil in global air travel caused by the US-Israel war on Irancontinued, with hundreds of thousands of passengers already stranded.

Gulf airports and airlines have suspended all operations until at least 10am on Tuesday.