Paris (AFP)
Air France has suspended until further notice "all overflights of Iranian and Iraqi airspace", a few hours after Iranian strikes against two bases sheltering American soldiers in Iraq.
"As a precaution and upon the announcement of air strikes in progress, Air France has decided to suspend until further notice any overflight of Iranian and Iraqi airspace," said a spokesman for the airline, contacted by AFP.
"The flight plans are adjusted in real time according to the decisions of French and regional authorities, all over the world, in order to ensure the highest level of flight safety," said the company.
In Germany, Lufthansa announced that it had canceled its daily flight to Tehran.
The federal agency of the American aviation (FAA) prohibited on Tuesday evening with the American civil planes the overflight of Iraq, Iran and the Gulf, in the wake of the attacks.
These flight restrictions come after Iran sent missiles against the bases of Aïn al-Assad and Erbil in Iraq, used by the American army, in reprisal for the American strike which had killed in Baghdad the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani last week.
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