More airlines have begun restoring a limited set of services to Middle Eastern destinations after the recent hostilities tied to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. However, a number of carriers continue to maintain suspensions or have adjusted the timing and frequency of returns. Below is a rundown of the current status by airline, listed alphabetically, reflecting announced suspensions and restart plans.
AEGEAN AIRLINES - Greece's largest carrier has cancelled flights to Dubai until August 31, and has suspended services to Erbil and Baghdad until September 30.
AIRBALTIC - Flights to Dubai are cancelled through October 24.
AIR CANADA - The Canadian carrier has cancelled its flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until October 24.
AIR FRANCE-KLM - Air France has suspended flights to Beirut until July 20. Air France restarted services to Dubai on July 8, to Riyadh on June 6 and to Tel Aviv on July 3. KLM is suspending flights to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until July 15.
CATHAY PACIFIC - The Hong Kong airline intends to resume flights to Dubai and to Riyadh from September 1.
DELTA - The U.S. carrier has suspended Atlanta-Tel Aviv services through December 18. It plans to restart New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6. The planned launch of a Boston-Tel Aviv route, originally scheduled for late October, has been delayed until further notice.
FINNAIR - Finnair has cancelled Doha flights until October 2 and continues to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. The airline will restart Dubai services, which it operates seasonally in winter, in October.
IAG / BRITISH AIRWAYS - IAG-owned British Airways delayed the resumption of flights to Doha until August 1 and to Riyadh until August 8. Flights to Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bahrain and Amman are paused until the end of the summer season and are scheduled to resume on October 25. The carrier plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh and Tel Aviv to one daily flight when they restart and will drop Jeddah as a destination.
JAPAN AIRLINES - Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until August 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until September 1.
LOT - The Polish carrier plans to operate a winter route to Dubai from October and intends to resume services to Beirut in its Summer 2027 schedule.
LUFTHANSA GROUP - SWISS has postponed the resumption of flights to Tel Aviv until August, while Brussels Airlines has suspended operations until October 24. Lufthansa and SWISS will continue suspensions of Dubai flights until September 13. Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines have suspended flights to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran until October 24. Low-cost carrier Eurowings, after restarting Erbil, Beirut and Tel Aviv services, expects to resume its remaining Middle East destinations in autumn. ITA Airways has extended the suspension of flights to Riyadh until July 31 and to Dubai until October 24 for operational reasons.
NORWEGIAN AIR - The low-cost carrier has pushed back planned launches of Tel Aviv and Beirut services indefinitely; no new start dates have been set.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES - Singapore Airlines extended its Singapore-Dubai suspension until August 2. At the same time, the carrier added services on the Singapore-London Gatwick and Singapore-Melbourne routes from late March until October 24 to meet higher demand.
TURKISH AIRLINES / SUNEXPRESS - SunExpress, the joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, plans to resume its Antalya-Dubai route on July 15. Flights to Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil are cancelled until July 14.
WIZZ AIR - The low-cost operator has suspended flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September.
The pattern of partial resumptions alongside extended suspensions highlights operational caution by carriers and uneven capacity restoration across the region. Some airlines have restarted specific city pairs already in July, while others have pushed returns into August, September, October or beyond, and a few have left launches indefinitely delayed. These staggered restarts reflect a range of operational considerations cited by carriers, including seasonal scheduling, airspace avoidance and other logistical constraints.
For passengers and freight customers, the current picture means altered connections, reduced frequencies on routes that come back online and uncertainty around the timing of full network restoration. Airlines that have announced single-daily frequencies on some routes when services resume are signaling a phased, capacity-conservative approach to restoring Middle East links.