We use necessary cookies to make our website work. We'd also like to use optional cookies to understand how you use it, and to help us improve it.

For more information, please read our cookie policy.

Middle East travel advice

As a result of the ongoing situation in the Middle East, many flights to and from the region are cancelled.

The Manual of Air Traffic Services contains procedures, instructions and information which are intended to form the basis of air traffic services within the United Kingdom. It is published for the guidance of civil air traffic controllers and may also be of general interest to others associated with civil aviation.

Edition 12 becomes effective 31 October 2025.

Supplementary Instructions (SIs) to CAP 493 are periodically issued ahead of routine amendments to introduce an entirely new subject, a radical change to existing instructions or to re-emphasise an existing instruction. CAP 493 should be read in conjunction with these Supplementary Instructions.



Status:
Current
Review comment:
Effective 31 October 2025
Version:
12
Version date:
01-Sept-2025
View file:

This publication features in the following categories.

This publication features in the following series.