Is it safe to travel to Dubai, Turkey and Egypt?

In fact, the Gulf state is one of a handful of countries in the Middle East where no flight warning is in place, according to Safe Airspace.

Given airlines have diverted Dubai flights around Iraqi, Jordanian, Israeli and Lebanese airspace, you’re unlikely to encounter conflict-related problems while flying there.

But ‘terrorists are likely to try to carry out attacks in the UAE’, indiscriminately or targeting foreign nationals including UK citizens, according to FCDO.

It has also been subjected to terrorist attacks in recent years, particularly during religious festivals like Ramadan and Christmas, and at sites frequented by tourists.

Safe Airspace urges caution when flying over Egypt, mainly because Germany advises against flights below 26,000ft in North Sinai due to ‘anti-aviation and ground weaponry’.

Straddling the boundary between Africa and Asia, there are also different degrees of danger in various regions of Egypt, visited by half a million people from the UK each year.

If you are travelling to the heavily populated area along the River Nile – as dense with ancient artefacts as it is with people – you are likely to be safe.

Further south and along the Sinai Peninsula’s Red Sea coasts, where you can find popular resorts like Sharm el Sheikh, are deemed safe thanks to security operations.

The FCDO also advises against all travel to within 13 miles of the Libyan border due to ongoing conflict in that country.

Only essential travel is advised for much of the desert west of the Nile and the area of Ismailiyah Governorate east of the Suez Canal due to crime and military operations.

This also applies to the Hala’ib Triangle and Bir Tawil Trapezoid in southern Egypt due to border disputes with Sudan.

Travel to and across other parts of the border with Sudan, where there is an ongoing civil war, is ‘at your own risk’, FCDO said

A lack of embassy staff in this area, where there ‘is almost no infrastructure’, means the UK government’s ‘ability to provide assistance is very limited’.

LGBT+ travellers and foreign nationals participating in political activity may be detained or imprisoned by sometimes violent security forces in the country, which has a ‘restrictive’ political environment ruled by a military dictatorship.

Is it safe to travel to Turkey?

You’ll be glad to know you won’t have to fly through any drones or missiles if you travel to Turkey, one of the top ten destinations for Brits, who visited more than 3,000,000 times last year.

Several flights circled back while still in the safety of Turkish airspace in order to dodge the barrage of 180 Iranian missiles launched at Israel on Tuesday night.

There is some risk associated with flying there though, with Safe Airspace advising caution, its lowest category of concern.

In large part this is due to the risk of local militia misidentifying civilian flights when occasionally targeting military aircraft.

Russia’s war in Ukraine can also result in GPS signal interference in Turkey’s airspace over the Black Sea to the north.

This can also happen further south due to conflicts in neighbouring countries like Syria and Iraq.

Once you’re on the ground, you will be relatively safe unless you go within roughly 6 miles of the Syrian border, where no travel is advised.