Airlines are slowly reinstating certain routes to the Middle East, as regional carriers work to restore their flight schedules following recent war-related disruptions. While Middle Eastern airlines have increased capacity after the severe impact of the Iran conflict, many international carriers continue to reroute Europe-Asia flights to bypass the region entirely, indicating ongoing wider traffic flow disruptions.
Greece's largest carrier cancelled flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv until June 26. Flights to Dubai are cancelled until August 31, and to Erbil and Baghdad until July 2. Latvia's airBaltic has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28 and flights to Dubai until October 24. The Canadian carrier has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until September 7. The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28.
Air France has suspended its Tel Aviv flights until June 14. It suspended flights to Beirut and Dubai until June 17 and to Riyadh until June 2. KLM suspended flights to Riyadh and Dammam until July 12 and to Dubai until August 2. The Hong Kong airline has suspended flights to Dubai and Riyadh until August 31. The U.S. carrier has suspended services for the Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through December 18. It plans to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6, while the launch of its Boston-Tel Aviv route, planned for late October, has been delayed until further notice.
The Finnish carrier has cancelled its Doha flights until October 2, while continuing to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. It will restart Dubai flights, which it operates only in the winter season, in October. IAG-owned British Airways delayed its resumption of flights to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv to August 1. It plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh and Tel Aviv to one daily flight when services resume, while permanently dropping Jeddah as a destination.
Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until July 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until August 1. The Polish airline has cancelled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut until June 27. LOT plans 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 the resumption of flights 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 until June 12, to Erbil until June 22 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24. ITA Airways has also extended the suspension of its flights to Riyadh until June 30.
