British Airways will resume flights to several Middle Eastern destinations in July but with a reduced schedule, the airline announced. The carrier suspended services to the region due to the Iran war and plans to restart flights to Riyadh in mid-May, and to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv on 1 July.
BA is cutting its Dubai flights from three daily to one, and reducing services to Doha, Tel Aviv and Riyadh from two to one daily. It will permanently drop Jeddah in Saudi Arabia as a destination from 24 April, while flights to Bahrain and Amman are paused until 25 October. Flights to Larnaca in Cyprus are scheduled to resume on 22 May.
“Due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East, we have made further changes to our flying schedule to provide greater clarity for our customers,” a BA spokesperson said. “We’re keeping the situation under constant review and are directly in touch with affected customers to offer them a range of options.”
Since the war began, BA has helped thousands of customers return home, operated relief flights, and added additional capacity on key long-haul routes. The airline will use freed-up aircraft to operate more direct flights to India and Kenya, including larger aircraft on its Delhi and Hyderabad routes from 1 June, and additional daily flights to Bengaluru and Nairobi over the summer until late October.
