All the Birmingham Airport flights cancelled today - Thursday, March 19

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : With the Iran, US and Israel conflict reaching its fourth week this weekend, the Middle East airspace continues to face much less traffic owing to closures, cancelled services and grounded fleets. BHX, which serves Birmingham to the UAE and Qatar, is among the UK transport hubs affected.
27% : Trump said that "no more attacks will be made by Israel" on the field - unless Iran "decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar".
16% : Trump added: "In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.
12% : In a fresh twist on Thursday, March 19, Donald Trump has threatened to "massively blow up" the entire South Pars gas field if Iran carries out any more retaliatory attacks on Qatar's LNG gas facilities. READ MORE 10 tax and HMRC changes for UK households from April 6 - full list The US president also said in a post on his Truth Social platform that the US "knew nothing" about Israel's Wednesday attack at the South Pars field, which Iran shares with Qatar, and neither did Doha.

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