Hasn't been a blockade here for some time now. Saudi and the UAE flights were banned due 'to escalating Delta Variant COVID cases within the GCC region' (really down to them sqaubbling over the OPEC oil $barrel set price), but that all sorted now as well.
There are eyebrows being raised in the UAE, especially the Emirate of Abu Dhabi about the amount of money being funnelled into 'projects' - anywhere else in the world Etihad would have been bankrupt a decade ago.
Fair enough, thanks for the clarification