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🗞️ Story file #424

Delta delays Saudi flights after Riyadh airport attacks

Oct 13, 4 PM ET to Oct 13, 9 PM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏2 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
53 sof TV captions
4 of 10parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 13, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
Oct 13, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 13, 4 PM to Oct 13, 9 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

Business Insider Delta delays first-ever direct US to Saudi Arabia flights after airport missile strikes Oct 13, 10 AM ET
CNBC Delta delays debut of Saudi Arabia service until March after Riyadh airport attacks Oct 12, 1 PM ET
Reuters Airlines cancel flights to Saudi Arabia after Riyadh airport attacks Oct 12, 11 AM ET
The Hill Delta postpones Atlanta-to-Riyadh service after Houthi attacks on Saudi airport Oct 13, 1 PM ET
Washington Examiner Delta delays planned flight to Saudi Arabia after deadly Riyadh airport strikes Oct 12, 6 PM ET
IJR Riyadh Airport Attack Triggers Airline Disruptions Oct 11, 6 PM ET
Newsmax Qatar Airways Halts Flights to Saudi Airports Amid Attacks Oct 12, 10 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News53 s

Four wounded in riotous missile attacks on Riyadh BBC News, 53 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Reuters World News 🎙️ Bloomberg News Now

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Saudi Arabia Delta Riyadh Qatar Airways Riyadh Airport

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

Yemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Houthis attack Saudi oil facility near Riyadh
Oct 4, 2 PM ET
Houthi rebels strike Saudi airport; Trump considers U.S. involvement
Oct 10, 6 PM ET
Delta delays Saudi flights after Riyadh airport attacks (this story)
Oct 13, 4 PM ET
Trump warns Houthis over saudi attacks
Oct 14, 12 AM ET
Saudi airport closure extended after Houthi strikes
Oct 14, 7 AM ET
Houthis attack Saudi airports and oil facilities
Oct 15, 9 AM ET
Saudi Arabia launches new strikes against Houthi targets
Oct 15, 8 PM ET
Houthi attacks continue despite Saudi military efforts
Oct 15, 6 AM ET
Houthi missiles strike Yemeni presidential palace, killing two
Oct 4, 11 AM ET