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Get to Know the Airlines That Suspended Flights to the Middle East Amid Escalating Tensions

Get to Know the Airlines That Suspended Flights to the Middle East Amid Escalating Tensions
Get to Know the Airlines That Suspended Flights to the Middle East Amid Escalating Tensions

2024-10-11 18:48:58 - From: Iraq News


Concerns over the widening conflict in the Middle East have led global airlines to suspend their flights to the region or avoid affected airspace.

Here are some airlines that have adjusted their services to and from the region:

  • Aegean Airlines: The Greek airline has canceled its flights to and from Beirut until October 31 and to and from Tel Aviv until October 21.

  • Air Algérie: The airline has suspended its flights to and from Lebanon until further notice.

  • Air Baltic: The Latvian airline has canceled its flights to and from Tel Aviv until October 31.

  • Air Europa: The Spanish airline has suspended its flights to Tel Aviv until October 20.

  • Air France-KLM Group: Air France has suspended its flights between Paris and Tel Aviv until October 15, and between Paris and Beirut until October 26. KLM has extended its suspension of flights to Tel Aviv until at least the end of the year, while its low-cost subsidiary, Transavia, has canceled flights to Tel Aviv, Amman, and Beirut until the end of March.

  • Air India: The Indian airline has suspended its flights to and from Tel Aviv until further notice.

  • Bulgaria Air: The Bulgarian airline has canceled its flights to and from Israel until October 31.

  • Cathay Pacific: The Hong Kong-based airline has suspended its flights to Tel Aviv until October 25, 2025.

  • Cyprus Airways: The airline has canceled its flights to Tel Aviv until October 13.

  • Delta Airlines: The American airline has suspended its flights between New York and Tel Aviv until December 31.

  • easyJet: The British low-cost carrier has suspended its flights to and from Tel Aviv in April and will resume them on March 30, 2025.

  • Emirates: The UAE-based airline has canceled flights to Beirut until October 15 and has suspended flights to and from Iraq and Iran until October 16.

  • Ethiopian Airlines: The airline announced on Facebook on October 4 that it has suspended flights to Beirut until further notice.

  • Flydubai: A spokesperson for the UAE airline said it has suspended flights between Dubai and Beirut until October 31.

  • International Airlines Group (IAG): British Airways, owned by IAG, has suspended its flights to and from Tel Aviv until October 26. IAG's low-cost carrier Iberia Express has suspended flights to Tel Aviv until October 31, while Vueling has canceled flights to Tel Aviv until January 12, 2025, and to Amman until further notice.

  • Iran Air: The airline has suspended all flights to and from Beirut until further notice.

  • Iraqi Airways: The national carrier of Iraq has suspended flights to Beirut until further notice.

  • ITA Airways: The Italian airline has extended its suspension of flights to Tel Aviv until October 31.

  • LOT Polish Airlines: The airline has canceled its flights to Tel Aviv until October 26, with its first scheduled flights to Beirut set to start on April 1, 2025.

  • Lufthansa Group: The German airline group has suspended its flights to Tel Aviv until October 31, flights to Tehran until October 26, and to Beirut until November 30. The airline will avoid Iranian and Iraqi airspace until further notice, except for the corridor to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, and it will not use Israeli airspace until October 31. SunExpress, a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, has suspended flights to Beirut until December 17.

  • Pegasus Airlines: The Turkish airline has canceled its flights to Beirut until October 28.

  • Qatar Airways: The airline has temporarily suspended flights to and from Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon but will continue to operate flights to Amman during daylight hours only.

  • Ryanair: Europe's largest low-cost airline has suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv until the end of December. CEO Michael O'Leary told reporters on October 3 that the suspension is likely to last until the end of March.

  • Sundair: The German airline has canceled all flights from Berlin, Bremen, and Münster Osnabrück Airport to Beirut until December 8.

  • United Airlines: The Chicago-based airline has briefly suspended its flights to Tel Aviv.

  • TAROM: The Romanian airline has suspended its flights to Beirut until October 22.

  • Virgin Atlantic: The British airline has extended its suspension of flights to Tel Aviv until the end of March 2025.

  • Wizz Air: The Hungarian-based low-cost airline has suspended its flights to and from Israel and Jordan until October 13.