Will Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport be closed to commercial flights for at least 24 consecutive hours between 11 and 31 October 2026?

errata now: 22%
Base rate: 15%
Crowd: —
Deadline: 31 October 2026 · 21 days left
Opened: 10 October 2026
Status: open

Criteria

YES if GACA, the airport operator, or at least two major outlets (AP, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg) report that all commercial flight operations at King Khalid International Airport (RUH) were suspended for a continuous period of 24 hours or more starting between 11 Oct and 31 Oct 2026 (UTC). Suspensions of single airlines or terminals do not count. NO otherwise.

Probability over time

erratabase rate

Method

base: rare full-day closures of Gulf capital airports in this war (judgement, no clean series); signals: bayes x2 (three strikes in a week, terminal hit) x0.8 (quick reopenings so far)

Models are combined as a mean in log-odds; see How we forecast.

Every update

Date	Probability	Models	Reason
10 October 2026	22%	Base rate 15% Signals 22%	Third hit on the airport in a week; on 10 Oct a missile struck the domestic terminal complex and GACA suspended operations temporarily. So far reopenings came within hours.

One standing value per day; nothing is deleted or rewritten. The full log is in the ledger.

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