{"id":2350,"date":"2026-10-08T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:03:57","slug":"lufthansa-group-air-india-suspend-riyadh-flights-amid-houthi-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2350","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Group, Air India suspend Riyadh flights amid Houthi threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Lufthansa Group airlines and Air \u200cIndia will suspend flights to Riyadh, they said on Thursday, as Yemen\u2019s \u200bHouthis renewed threats against \u200bairlines after claiming an attack on \u2060the Saudi capital\u2019s airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u200bLufthansa spokesperson told <em>Reuters<\/em> the German \u200bgroup\u2019s airlines would suspend flights to Riyadh through October 16 due to \u201ccurrent developments \u200bin the Middle East\u201d. \u200bAir India said it had cancelled all \u200cflights \u2060to the Saudi capital until October 10.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke was seen rising from a stationary aircraft at Riyadh \u200bairport earlier \u200bon \u2060Thursday, according to a witness and three people \u200bbriefed on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bHouthis \u2060said they had struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic \u2060missile.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Houthis \u200bescalated their campaign of strikes against Saudi Arabia, trying to shut down the kingdom\u2019s airspace and oil facilities with missile fire that has killed three people this \u200cweek.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it had struck Riyadh airport, where witnesses saw smoke billowing from a plane, and it warned workers to stay away from energy plants. Saudi officials said debris from an intercepted missile had hit a kindergarten and medical complex.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis say they are targeting the kingdom over its support for government forces in Yemen\u2019s reignited civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia says it is backing an offensive by Yemen\u2019s UN-recognised government to take back territory from the Houthis.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict, now an overspill \u200bof the US-Iran war, has added new chaos to a region already aflame, and threatens to draw other states into gruelling mountain fighting &#8211; with Syria now considering deploying troops to assist Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom \u200bhas pushed for support from allied nations, including Turkiye and Pakistan, even if only in a logistical or defensive capacity, as it tries to reverse Houthi gains \u2060in southwest Yemen, by the southern entrance to the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Those requests have taken on more urgency since Saudi authorities said on Wednesday that three people had been killed this week in strikes on Riyadh airport \u200band Abha airport in the southwest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa Group airlines and Air \u200cIndia will suspend flights to Riyadh, they said on Thursday, as Yemen\u2019s \u200bHouthis renewed threats against \u200bairlines after claiming an attack on \u2060the Saudi capital\u2019s airport. A \u200bLufthansa spokesperson told Reuters the German \u200bgroup\u2019s airlines would suspend flights to Riyadh through October 16 due to \u201ccurrent developments \u200bin the Middle East\u201d. \u200bAir India said it had cancelled all \u200cflights \u2060to the Saudi capital until October 10. Smoke was seen rising from a stationary aircraft at Riyadh \u200bairport earlier \u200bon \u2060Thursday, according to a witness and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}