Key facts
- Several airlines are resuming flights to parts of the Middle East.
- Many carriers continue to maintain flight suspensions due to ongoing conflict.
- Flight cancellations and suspensions extend through late October and December for some routes.
- Specific airlines like Lufthansa and ITA Airways plan to resume Tel Aviv flights in early July.
- Disruptions are impacting travel to key destinations including Tel Aviv, Dubai, Riyadh, and Doha.
Several airlines are gradually resuming flights to parts of the Middle East as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran gain momentum. However, many carriers have maintained flight suspensions, continuing to disrupt global travel.
Aegean Airlines has cancelled flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv until June 26, and flights to Dubai until August 31, with Erbil and Baghdad suspended until September 30. Airbaltic has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28 and to Dubai until October 24. Air Canada has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until October 24, while Air Europa has cancelled Tel Aviv flights until June 28.
Air France has suspended its Tel Aviv and Beirut flights until June 30 and flights to Dubai until July 5. KLM suspended flights to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until August 9. Cathay Pacific has suspended flights to Dubai and Riyadh until August 31.
Delta has suspended services for the Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through December 18, planning to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6. The launch of its Boston-Tel Aviv route has been delayed indefinitely. Finnair has cancelled its Doha flights until October 2 and continues to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel, planning to restart Dubai flights in October.
IAG-owned British Airways delayed the resumption of its flights to Doha until August 1 and to Riyadh until August 8. Flights to Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bahrain and Amman are paused until October 25, with reduced services planned upon resumption and Jeddah dropped as a destination. Japan Airlines has suspended Tokyo-Doha flights until August 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until September 1.
LOT has cancelled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut until June 27, planning to operate its winter route to Dubai from October. Lufthansa plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv as early as July 1, while ITA Airways confirmed it would resume them from July 1. SWISS postponed resumption until August, and Brussels Airlines suspended operations until October 24. Lufthansa, SWISS and ITA Airways will continue their suspension of Dubai flights until September 13. Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines suspended flights to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran until October 24. Low-cost carrier Eurowings suspended flights to Tel Aviv until July 9, to Beirut and Erbil until June 30, and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24. ITA Airways has also extended the suspension of its flights to Riyadh until July 31.
Malaysia Airlines will resume limited services to Doha from July 2. Norwegian Air has pushed back planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services indefinitely. Royal Air Maroc said flights to Doha were cancelled until June 30. Singapore Airlines extended its Singapore-Dubai flight suspension until August 2.
SunExpress, Turkish Airlines' joint venture with Lufthansa, has cancelled flights to Dubai until June 30 and to Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil until July 14. Wizz Air suspended flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September.