Airlines are incrementally restoring flights to the Middle East as regional carriers work to rebuild schedules disrupted by the Iran war, but the conflict continues to affect broader traffic flows. While some Middle Eastern operators have added capacity, a large number of carriers based outside the Gulf are still diverting Europe-Asia services to avoid the region.
The list below, presented in alphabetical order, reflects the most recent suspensions, resumptions and schedule changes disclosed by individual airlines:
- AEGEAN AIRLINES - Greece's largest carrier has cancelled flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv until June 26. Its services to Dubai are cancelled until August 31, and flights to Erbil and Baghdad are suspended until September 30.
- AIRBALTIC - Latvia's airBaltic has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28 and flights to Dubai until October 24.
- AIR CANADA - The Canadian carrier has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until October 24.
- AIR EUROPA - The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28.
- AIR FRANCE-KLM - Air France has suspended flights to Tel Aviv until June 21 and its services to Beirut and Dubai until June 24. KLM has suspended flights to Riyadh and Dammam until July 26 and to Dubai until August 2.
- CATHAY PACIFIC - The Hong Kong airline has suspended services to Dubai and Riyadh until August 31.
- DELTA - The U.S. carrier has suspended its Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through December 18. It plans to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6. The planned launch of a Boston-Tel Aviv route in late October has been delayed until further notice.
- FINNAIR - The Finnish carrier has cancelled flights to Doha until October 2 and continues to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. Finnair will restart its Dubai flights, which it operates seasonally in winter, in October.
- IAG / BRITISH AIRWAYS - IAG-owned British Airways has delayed resuming flights to Doha until August 1 and to Riyadh until August 8. Its services to Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bahrain and Amman are paused until the end of the summer season and are scheduled to resume on October 25. When these routes restart, the airline plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh and Tel Aviv to one daily flight, and to drop Jeddah as a destination.
- JAPAN AIRLINES - Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until July 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until August 1.
- LOT - The Polish carrier has cancelled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut until June 27. LOT intends to operate its winter route to Dubai from October.
- LUFTHANSA GROUP - Lufthansa plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv as early as July 1, and ITA Airways confirmed it will resume Tel Aviv services from July 1. SWISS has postponed resumption until August, and Brussels Airlines has suspended operations until October 24. Lufthansa, SWISS and ITA Airways will continue suspending 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 has suspended flights to Tel Aviv until July 9, to Beirut until July 17, to Erbil until June 22 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24. ITA Airways has extended suspension of its flights to Riyadh until June 30.
- MALAYSIA AIRLINES - The Malaysian carrier will resume limited services to Doha from July 2.
- NORWEGIAN AIR - The low-cost airline has pushed back planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services indefinitely, with no new start dates decided.
- QANTAS - Australia’s flag carrier is adding flights to Rome and Paris to meet an upswing in demand for European routes. Flights to Paris will increase to five return flights per week from three, and the Perth-Singapore service will increase from daily to 10 a week. The updated schedule will come into effect progressively for flights from mid-April and run until late July.
- ROYAL AIR MAROC - The Moroccan carrier said flights to Doha were cancelled until June 30.
- SINGAPORE AIRLINES - The carrier extended its Singapore-Dubai flight suspension until August 2, while adding 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, has cancelled flights to Dubai until June 30 and to Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil until July 14.
- WIZZ AIR - The low-cost carrier suspended flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September.
Across the carriers listed, suspension and resumption dates vary widely, stretching from late June through October and, in some cases, into December for specific routes. The pattern shows select restoration by regional operators alongside continued restraint and route avoidance by a range of international airlines.
Market activity and scheduling adjustments continue to evolve as airlines balance service restoration with safety assessments and demand considerations. The current patchwork of cancellations and reintroductions reflects the uneven pace of recovery for Middle East routes and the cautious posture maintained by many international carriers.