Updated on 27 May at 10:00 AM
Although cancellations have fallen below the 10% level seen in April, according to Cirium, the situation in the Middle East remains turbulent, and rising oil prices and difficulties in securing kerosene supplies are weighing on the global aviation industry. An updated overview, airline by airline, of cancelled flights and fuel surcharges.
European companies
AIR FRANCE has suspended its service to Riyadh until May 27th, to Tel Aviv until June 7th, and to Beirut and Dubai until June 10th (i.e., until June 11th, 2026, for flights departing from Dubai). TRANSAVIA, for its part, has cancelled its services to Tel Aviv and Beirut until July 5th. KLM has stopped its flights to and from Riyadh and Dammam until July 12th, and to Dubai until August 2nd. The Dutch airline also announces disruptions on its flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut until June 11th and 18th respectively.
AEGEAN AIRLINES It resumed its flights to Tel Aviv at the end of April and to Beirut on 12 May. It is expected to relaunch services to Amman and Riyadh on 21 May, according to Al Arabiya. Flights to Dubai will not resume before the end of August.
AIR EUROPA has suspended its flights to and from Tel Aviv until June 28th.
BRITISH AIRWAYS will not resume its flights to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv before the 1er August, according to Reuters. As for Abu Dhabi, connections will not resume until October 25th.
FINNAIR has suspended its flights to Doha until July 2nd and does not expect to resume services to Dubai until October.
IBERIA suspend some of its flights to Tel Aviv or Doha, but reroutes its customers via code-share flights with EL AL and Qatar Airways.
LOT Polish Airlines cancels its [flights] to and from Tel Aviv until 30 May, and to and from Riyadh until 30 June, while not serving Beirut airport until 27 June.
LUFTHANSA, SWISS, BRUSSELS AIRLINES, AUSTRIAN AIRLINES, ITA AIRWAYS and EUROWINGS will progressively resume their links to Tel Aviv airport, starting with Austrian Airlines on the 1ster June, likely followed by SWISS, Lufthansa, and ITA in early July. Only Brussels Airlines does not plan to serve Tel Aviv until the end of October. Similarly, all these airlines have suspended service to Dubai until September 13. Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat, and Tehran: all these destinations will not be served before October 24.
WIZZ AIR a, according to the British site Mirror, has suspended its flights to and from Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from Europe until mid-September. According to The Times of Israel, its flights to Tel Aviv resumed on May 4.
TURKISH AIRLINES announces the cancellation of some of its flights to and from the entire region until the end of June. See the website for the flight status company.
Gulf Companies
EMIRATES is currently operating a schedule close to normal, with over 135 destinations on offer, representing 75% of its pre-crisis capacity. Emirates serves Paris with 21 weekly flights, all operated by the A380, Nice with a daily service also operated by the A380, and Lyon with four weekly flights operated by the A350. Most of the world’s major cities are also included in its flight schedule (see its website).
ETIHAD has expanded its programme with 80 destinations served from or to Abu Dhabi, notably resuming its flights to Bahrain, Beirut, Kuwait and Medina from the 1ster May. Etihad will also be offering, from 1er From 14 June, there will be two daily connections to Paris-CDG and four flights per day to London Heathrow. Daily services to Bangkok, Dublin, Geneva, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Tel Aviv and Zurich are also planned.
GULF AIR resumes its full activity in Bahrain, after having temporarily postponed its routes to Dammam airport in Saudi Arabia. Around fifty destinations will be gradually offered from Bahrain, including Paris and Frankfurt, served by a daily flight since the 1st.er mai, whilst London, Dubai, Riyadh, Jeddah, Islamabad, Lahore, Nairobi and Istanbul are also connected as before. Nice, for its part, benefits from two weekly connections since May 23rd. Milan, Moscow, Geneva: all these metropolises, among others, will be on the agenda in the coming weeks, in addition to most of the major cities in the Middle East, as well as flights to Singapore, Shanghai and New York.
KUWAIT AIRWAYS, after having long used Dammam Airport to maintain part of its operations, repositioned its flights to Kuwait Airport on April 26th with the proposed destinations being London, Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Mumbai, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Colombo, Dhaka, Islamabad, Manila and Guangzhou. While Paris did not feature on this list, it was possible to book a Kuwait-Paris flight on the airline's website from May 16th.
OMAN AIR operates its network to Europe, South-East Asia and Africa as normal and resumed its links to the metropolises of the Middle East in April, with a flight schedule whose frequencies are set to increase depending on demand.
QATAR AIRWAYS gradually increasing its offering in Doha to 150 destinations from mid-June until 15 September. This flight schedule already includes Paris, served daily with three flights, as well as London and New York, along with around twenty other European cities and a large number of Asian cities. Other destinations are being added to this schedule, including Nice since 16 May. For Brussels, Düsseldorf, Lisbon, Oslo, Prague, or Zagreb, you will have to wait until 16 June. As for Middle Eastern cities, they are back on the schedule, with the exception of Kuwait, which will resume services in mid-June. (see its website).
SAUDIA has resumed its flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman since mid-April (see its website for his flight plan).
Middle Eastern Companies
EgyptAir is gradually resuming its flights to cities in the region, although its flight schedule remains disrupted, particularly to Kuwait.
EL AL has increased its offer to nearly 40 destinations served to and from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, having initially served Paris, London, Milan, Rome and Athens in Europe, and New York (JFK and Newark), Miami and Los Angeles in the United States. Marseille and around thirty other European cities have been added to its programme more recently: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Batumi, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Krakow, Frankfurt, Larnaca, Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paphos, Prague, Rhodes, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Tbilisi, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich. And this, in addition to three destinations in Asia – Bangkok, Phuket and Tokyo – and Boston in the United States.
MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES (MEA) It offers regular flights to most destinations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, with its routes to Kuwait and Najaf remaining suspended. Paris, Dubai, Jeddah, Istanbul, Cairo, Riyadh and Doha benefit from at least two daily flights from Beirut, while London, Frankfurt, Amman, Abu Dhabi and Baghdad have at least one flight per day. Other European destinations served by the Lebanese airline include Athens, Brussels, Geneva, Madrid, Milan and Rome.
ROYAL JORDANIAN proposes a near-normal flight schedule at Amman airport, notably for serving major European capitals, including Paris.
ROYAL AIR MAROC has cancelled its flights to Dubai until the end of May and to Doha until the end of June.
American and Asian companies
AIR CANADA a suspendu tous ses vols à destination et au départ de Dubaï et de Tel-Aviv jusqu’au 7 septembre.
AIR INDIA has suspended its routes to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other airports in the Emirates, as well as to Doha, Dammam, Bahrain and Kuwait, Salalah in Oman, and also to Tel Aviv.
CATHAY PACIFIC has suspended its flights to and from Dubai and Riyadh until 31 August.
CHINA EASTERN will not resume the Shanghai Pu Dong – Abu Dhabi connection before the 1ster September.
DELTA AIR LINES has suspended its New York-Tel Aviv routes until September 6 and Atlanta-Tel Aviv routes until November 30, according to Al Arabiya. The Boston-Tel Aviv route, which was scheduled to launch at the end of October, has also been postponed.
JAPAN AIRLINES has extended its Tokyo Haneda-Doha flight suspension until 31 July.
KOREAN AIR will not serve Dubai until 31 May.
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES will resume its flights to and from Doha on July 2nd.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES has cancelled its Dubai service until August 2nd.
