Air carriers worldwide are continuing to modify operations as the Middle East conflict affects air traffic patterns and route economics. Middle Eastern carriers have indicated they are restoring or increasing capacity after significant disruption, while airlines based outside the Gulf are changing routings between Europe and Asia to avoid major hubs in the region and suspending flights to a range of destinations.
Summary of carrier actions
The entries below list the most recent schedule adjustments, suspensions and resumptions announced by individual airlines. Each note preserves the specific destinations and suspension or restart dates disclosed by the respective carriers.
- Aegean Airlines - Greece's largest carrier will restart services to Tel Aviv from Heraklion, Rhodes and Larnaca on May 21. Flights between Thessaloniki and Tel Aviv are cancelled until June 26. The carrier will resume flights to Beirut on May 12 and to Riyadh and Amman on May 21. Services to Dubai remain cancelled until August 31, and flights to Erbil and Baghdad are suspended until July 2.
- airBaltic - Latvia's airBaltic has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv through June 28 and has cancelled services to Dubai through October 24.
- Air Canada - The Canadian carrier has suspended flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until September 7.
- Air Europa - The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until May 31.
- Air France-KLM - Air France has suspended flights to Tel Aviv, Beirut and Dubai until May 20 and to Riyadh until May 12. KLM has suspended services to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until June 28.
- Cathay Pacific - The Hong Kong carrier has suspended passenger flights to Dubai and Riyadh until June 30 and cargo freighter services to Dubai and Riyadh until May 31. It plans to operate all scheduled flights beyond June.
- Delta Air Lines - The U.S. carrier has extended the suspension of its Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through November 30 and plans to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6. The planned Boston-Tel Aviv launch, previously scheduled for late October, has been delayed until further notice.
- El Al Israel Airlines - All El Al flights to Dubai are cancelled until May 31.
- Emirates - The United Arab Emirates airline reports it is operating to 137 destinations.
- Etihad Airways - Etihad says it is operating a commercial schedule between Abu Dhabi and roughly 80 destinations.
- Finnair - The Finnish carrier has cancelled Doha flights until July 2 and continues to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. Finnair has stated it will only restart Dubai operations in October.
- IAG - IAG-owned British Airways plans to scale down Middle East capacity when services resume, permanently dropping Jeddah as a destination and reducing flights to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv to one daily service starting July 1. Riyadh services will be cut from two daily flights to one from mid-May. These adjustments apply through the summer season ending October 24, with one Dubai service restarting on October 16. IAG's Spanish low-cost carrier Iberia Express has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv through May 31.
- Japan Airlines - Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until May 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until June 1.
- LOT Polish Airlines - LOT suspended flights to Tel Aviv until May 31, cancelled Riyadh services until June 30 and suspended flights to Beirut from March 31 to June 19. LOT plans to resume its winter Dubai route in October.
- Lufthansa Group - Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Edelweiss have suspended flights to Tel Aviv until May 31 and to Dubai until July 11. Flights to Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran are suspended until October 24. Low-cost carrier Eurowings has 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 extended suspensions to Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Dubai until May 31.
- Malaysia Airlines - The Malaysian carrier will resume limited services to Doha from June 2.
- Norwegian Air - The low-cost carrier has postponed planned launches of Tel Aviv and Beirut services to June 15.
- Pegasus Airlines - Turkey's Pegasus has cancelled flights to a wide set of regional destinations - including Iran, Iraq, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah - until June 1.
- Qantas - Australia's flag carrier is adding capacity to European routes to meet increased demand, increasing Paris services to five weekly roundtrips from three and boosting the Perth-Singapore service from daily to 10 weekly frequencies. Qantas' updated schedule will come into effect progressively from mid-April and run until late July.
- Qatar Airways - Qatar Airways said it will resume passenger flights to Baghdad, Basra and Erbil in Iraq starting May 10 and will expand its international network to more than 150 destinations from June 16.
- Royal Air Maroc - The Moroccan carrier has cancelled flights to Doha until June 30 and to Dubai until May 31.
- Singapore Airlines - The carrier extended suspension of its Singapore-Dubai service until August 2 and has added services on Singapore-London Gatwick and Singapore-Melbourne routes from late March through October 24 to address higher demand.
- SunExpress - SunExpress, the joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, has cancelled flights to Dubai until June 7.
- Turkish Airlines - (See SunExpress entry for the joint-venture-specific cancellations.)
- Wizz Air - The low-cost carrier is suspending flights from mainland Europe to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until mid-September. All flights to Medina are suspended indefinitely.
Sector and operational context
These scheduling changes affect passenger and cargo operations across multiple markets. The published suspensions and reroutes touch European, Middle Eastern, Asian and North American markets, and include both full-service and low-cost carriers. The list includes airlines that have restored capacity or routes and others that have extended suspensions through the summer and into autumn months.
Finnair's explicit avoidance of the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel is among the operational constraints the industry has cited publicly, and several carriers have provided specific restart or suspension dates for affected routes.
Additional note
The circulated text accompanying these carrier updates also included a promotional reference regarding the ticker LHAG and a fair value calculator tool; that reference appeared separately from the flight-status listings.
What this release does and does not say
This compilation relays the service status and date ranges as provided by the airlines. It does not infer causes beyond the operational effects noted, nor does it project future route reopenings or commercial decisions beyond the specific dates and plans supplied by the carriers themselves.