The hole in the sky: How Middle East airspace closures are reshaping global aviation

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Open the airplane-tracking website Flightradar24 right now and the change is unmistakable. Where one of the world’s busiest aviation crossroads should be — a dense web of aircraft linking Europe, Asia and Africa — there is instead a yawning gap. A hole in the sky. As conflict escalates in