Airlines resume some Middle East flights but disruption continues

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PARIS, France — Some airlines are gradually restoring some flights to the Middle East although most suspensions are still in force after the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, disrupting global travel.

Below is an update on the status of airlines’ flights, in alphabetical order:

Aegean Airlines

Greece’s largest carrier cancelled flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv until June 26. Flights to Dubai are cancelled until Aug. 31, and to Erbil and Baghdad until Sept. 30.

airBaltic

Latvia’s airBaltic has canceled 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 Oct. 24.

Air Europa

The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28.

Air France-KLM 

Air France has suspended its Tel Aviv flights until June 21, and flights to Beirut and Dubai until June 24.

KLM suspended flights to Riyadh and Dammam until July 26 and to Dubai until Aug. 2.

Cathay Pacific

The Hong Kong airline has suspended flights to Dubai and Riyadh until Aug. 31.

Delta

The U.S. carrier has suspended services for the Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through Dec. 18. It plans to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on Sept. 6, while the launch of its Boston-Tel Aviv route, planned for late October, has been delayed until further notice.

Finnair

The Finnish carrier has canceled 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 

IAG-owned British Airways delayed the resumption of its flights to Doha until Aug. 1 and to Riyadh until Aug. 8. Flights to Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bahrain and Amman are paused until the end of the summer season and are scheduled to resume on Oct. 25. It plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh and Tel Aviv to one daily flight when they resume, while dropping 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 airline has canceled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut until June 27. LOT plans to operate its winter route to Dubai from October.

Lufthansa Group

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 July 17, to Erbil until June 30 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24.

ITA Airways has also extended the suspension of its flights to Riyadh until July 31.

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, and no new start dates have been 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. An 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 canceled 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, Turkish Airlines’ joint venture with Lufthansa, has canceled flights to Dubai until June 30 and to Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil until July 14.

Wizz Air

The low-cost airline suspended flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September.

(Compiled by Josephine Mason, Jamie Freed, Elviira Luoma, Tiago Brandao, Agnieszka Olenska, Bernadette Hogg, Boleslaw Lasocki, Alexander Klyve Gudbrandsen and Romolo Tosiani. Editing by Matt Scuffham, Alexander Smith, Susan Fenton, Milla Nissi-Prussak, Jonathan Ananda, Joe Bavier and Louise Heavens)