Due to the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, a no-fly zone was imposed over the entire country in March 2015, and civilian flights ceased operation. The only flights operating from then on were flights by foreign countries to evacuate their nationals. The militaries of India and Pakistan evacuated their citizens from Yemen as the war began. On 29 April 2015, the airport was the target of severe bombardment from the Royal Saudi Air Force. The sole runway and the passenger terminal building was severely damaged and was deemed unusable for the foreseeable future. On 9 August 2016, the airport was closed down once again after resumption of services by Yemenia due to closure of airspace by the Saudi-led coalition. On 6 November 2017, in response to a Houthi missile landing in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi authorities closed the airport along with all other routes into Yemen. On 14 November of that year, the Saudi Air Force bombed the airport, inflicting damage upon it. On 23 November 2017, the authorities allowed the airport to reopen for aid flights, along with the port of Hodeidah. On 25 November, four planes carrying humanitarian aid landed in Sanaa, the first such planes to land since the total blockade had been imposed. On 3 February 2020, a United Nations plane carrying seven seriously ill Yemenis took off on a mercy flight to Jordan. In December 2021, the airport was targeted by Saudi Arabian airstrikes. Civilians were reportedly evacuated before the airstrikes were launched but the airport was heavily damaged. On 16 May 2022, commercial flights from the airport resumed after six years. The first Yemenia flight carried 151 passengers to the Jordanian capital Amman. On 28 July 2024, it was announced that Yemenia would resume flights from Sanaa International Airport to Egypt, and India in the following week. However, that was cancelled. On 25 May 2025, for the first time since the start of the civil war the first plane carrying Yemeni pilgrims departed directly from Sanaa International Airport en route to the Saudi city of Jeddah, marking the beginning of Hajj pilgrimage season. Khaled Al-Shaif, Director of Sanaa International Airport, stated in a press release that approximately 2,000 pilgrims will be transported directly from the airport to the holy sites. On 13 July 2026, the Presidential Leadership Council (the internationally recognized government of Yemen) and Saudi Arabia struck the airport, allegedly to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. The Houthis retaliated by launching numerous missiles and drones against Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport.