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Flying Ad‐hoc Networks (FANETs) play a major role in various civilian and non‐civilian applications especially in search and rescue operations after natural disasters. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) collect critical information in the form of images and videos from disaster areas and send it to the ground station (GS) for immediate rescue operations. UAVs capture the information and send it to the GS to carry out the rescue operations without any delay. A small number of UAVs operate over a large geographic area for rescue operations when a sudden natural disaster occurs that creates a sparse or intermittent network. Therefore, routing is the most challenging issue in sparse FANETs due to the low‐node density network and high mobility of UAVs Existing routing protocols for connected or dense FANETs cannot be directly adopted in extremely sparse FANETs. Only a few works exist that focus on sparse …