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  • @radar
    So my flight to Jordan was cancelled as Israel closed its airspace yesterday morning. (And I guess my airline were too cheap to spend the extra fuel needed to circumnavigate Israel by going south over Sinai and then up north again.)
    In any case, Flightradar24 seems to confirm that not much is happening in the sky over Israel whenever I check, but there is no mention of the official closure as such. Is there somewhere on the interwebz where I can stay informed of such closures?

  • Hmm. Probably, but not in a free, easily digestible format. First off, the way these things are promulgated are via the NOTAM system - notices concerning airspace, navigation facilities, ATC restrictions etc that pilots or airline ops departments use to inform their flight planning. There are various online portals that let you check NOTAMs, but you need to be specific about where you’re interested in, and have a certain degree of knowledge of how the system works since they are full of weirdly formatted data. I suspect (although I’m not sure) that there are services that collate and present NOTAM data in easily read briefs as part of flight planning systems, but these will be expensive, paid for services that commercial operators will use.

    TL;DR - the system is Byzantine and there will be paid for services that pull it all together, but not freely available.

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