The national company Qatar Airways announced the overflight of Saudi Arabia on Thursday by one of its planes, for the first time since the Gulf crisis.
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"Tonight #QatarAirways has started to change the trajectory of some flights by using Saudi airspace with a first flight, Doha-Johannesburg, scheduled for 5:45 GMT,"
the Qatar airline said on Twitter.
Saudi Arabia and three of its allies - the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt - severed relations with Qatar in June 2017, accusing it of getting along too much with their Iranian and Turkish adversaries and of supporting the Islamists.
On Tuesday, these four Arab countries announced the end of the crisis, with the lifting of the diplomatic and economic boycott of Doha.
On Monday, Kuwait, acting as mediator, announced the reopening by Saudi Arabia of its airspace and all of its borders in Qatar.
According to
the New York Times
, Qatar was paying Iran, Saudi Arabia's great regional rival, $ 100 million a year to be able to use its airspace and bypass the Saudi kingdom.