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Showcase window 1: Gulf airspace

Gulf air traffic more than doubled in two weeks, then held.

The Persian Gulf averaged 602 aircraft a day in 1 to 14 Jun and 1,429 in 22 to 30 Jun, after the 17 Jun ceasefire. September averaged 1,535.

The sky over the Gulf refilled within two weeks of the ceasefire, and September ran higher still.

Window: 1 Jun to 30 Sep 2026. Data as of 26 October 2026.

05001,0001,5001 to 14 Jun: 6026021 to 14 Jun22 to 30 Jun: 1,4291,42922 to 30 JunSeptember: 1,5351,535Septemberaircraft a day, Persian Gulf
Persian Gulf: 602 aircraft a day (1 to 14 Jun), 1,429 (22 to 30 Jun), 1,535 (September). Hormuz corridor: 4.8 to 79.2 aircraft a day. Gulf of Oman: 435 to 927 aircraft a day. Hover a bar for its value. Download the CSV. Using these figures.

Aircraft counts come from crowd-sourced receivers and are an index of traffic, not a census.

What the coverage showed

Qatar Tribune (22 June 2026) reported Gulf airlines back to about 82% of pre-war flights, airline by airline, with no aircraft count per zone. Source.

How this figure is made

Measure: aircraft counts per airspace zone. Figures come from the published record: 84,776 events, 28 Feb to 13 Oct 2026. Methodology.

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Conflict Gauge: Iran (MergeSeat). "Gulf air traffic more than doubled in two weeks, then held". https://conflictgauge.com/showcase/gulf-airspace-reopening. Data as of 26 October 2026. Page version v1, published 2026-10-28. Accessed <date>.
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