Middle East: The state of flights, airline by airline, this summer

The updated position, company by company, on cancelled flights this summer in the Near and Middle East.

Updated 4 August at 09:00.

European companies

AIR FRANCE-KLM:

Air France has suspended its flights to and from Riyadh until 14 August. As for flights to Dubai and Beirut, the suspension has been extended until 18 August.

TRANSAVIA will not fly to Tel Aviv and Beirut before 7 September.

KLM: services to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai suspended until September 6. The Dutch airline also announces disruptions to its flights to Beirut until August 31.

Lufthansa Group

Middle East

Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Swiss and ITA Airways have all resumed flights to Tel Aviv from the beginning of July. Only Brussels Airlines does not plan to serve the Israeli metropolis before 24 October. Flights to Amman and Beirut from all these companies are also expected to resume on 24 October.

Middle East:

LUFTHANSA, SWISS, AUSTRIAN AIRLINES and BRUSSELS AIRLINES will not serve Dubai, with services suspended until September 13. Regarding Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran, the resumption of flights is not planned before October 24. The same applies to ITA AIRWAYS flights to Dubai, suspended until this date, with the Italian airline serving Riyadh from July 31.

BRITISH AIRWAYS has resumed its flights to Doha, Dubai and Riyadh, routes which are seeing their frequencies reduced today as for the winter season, starting on 25 October. On that date, the British airline is expected to resume its connections to Amman and Tel Aviv. On the other hand, the resumption of flights to Abu Dhabi and Bahrain has been postponed until 2027, in January for Abu Dhabi and probably not before the end of March for Bahrain.

Aegean Airlines has suspended its flights to Dubai until August 31st. Baghdad and Erbil are not expected to be serviced until the end of September.

Finnair will not serve Dubai and Doha until early October.

LOT Polish Airlines has resumed its flights to Beirut and Riyadh, but according to Reuters, Dubai will not be on its flight schedule until the IATA winter season, which begins at the end of October.

Wizz Air should not serve airports in the region until mid-September.

Gulf Companies

Emirates is operating a flight schedule close to normal, although capacity may be reduced compared to pre-crisis levels. Emirates serves Paris with 21 weekly return flights, all by A380, Nice daily, also by A380, and Lyon with 4 weekly return flights by A350. Most major global metropolises are also included in its flight schedule.see his website).

ETIHAD is offering an extensive flight schedule this summer, with 300 flights a day and a capacity 10% higher than in summer 2025, with an announced seat load factor of 90%. In mid-June, the airline launched flights to Kraków, Palma de Mallorca, Damascus and Zanzibar, whilst Nice returned to its list of seasonal destinations on 19 June. As the Abu Dhabi-based airline celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its service to Paris CDG, Etihad is also offering up to three daily flights to the French capital.

GULF AIR, having temporarily suspended its services to Dammam Airport in Saudi Arabia, gradually resumed operations in Bahrain, initially with a network of 75% in May, which was increased to 100% from 1er June. Paris and Nice are among those served from Bahrain.

KUWAIT AIRLINES, after using Dammam Airport, repositioned its flights to Kuwait Airport at the end of April, with ParisCDG being served at least five times weekly. Nice is also among the destinations served this summer.

Oman Air is operating its network to Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa, as well as to Middle Eastern capitals, as normal.

QATAR AIRWAYS is gradually increasing its offering to Doha, expanding to 150 destinations from mid-June until 15 September. This flight schedule includes Paris, served by three daily flights, and Nice, as well as London and New York, among around twenty European capitals and a large number of cities in the Middle East and Asia. Please note that, given the current situation, the Qatari company has suspended its flights to Bahrain and Erbil until 25 July and to Dubai until 31 July. 

Middle Eastern Companies

EL AL has resumed near-normal operations at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, serving Paris and Marseille, among other major European metropolises, as well as New York (JFK and Newark), Boston, Miami, and Los Angeles in the United States.

MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES (MEA) offers regular flights to most destinations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, such as Paris, London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Cairo, Riyadh and Doha.

ROYAL JORDANIAN is proposing an almost normal flight schedule at Amman airport, particularly for services to major European capitals, including Paris.

American and Asian companies

Air Canada has suspended its flights to Dubai and Tel Aviv until 24 October.

CATHAY PACIFIC will resume services to Dubai and Riyadh on 25 October, with one daily flight to Dubai and four flights per week to the Saudi capital.

DELTA AIR LINES: New York-Tel Aviv flights suspended until September 6th and Atlanta-Tel Aviv until December 18th.

JAPAN AIRLINES: Flights Tokyo Haneda-Doha cancelled until October 23.

Korean Air has suspended the Seoul Incheon-Dubai route until August 2nd.

SINGAPORE AIRLINES: Dubai service suspended until October 24.