European companies
AIR FRANCE-KLM: AIR FRANCE has resumed its flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut. After regularly delaying the resumption of service to Dubai, it will not resume until October 24 at the earliest. The return of the line to Riyadh will not resume until that date as well.
TRANSAVIA, for its part, which resumed service to Tel Aviv on August 31, resumed service to Beirut from late September.
KLM continues to see the flights from Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai suspended until October 24, while its flights to/from Tel Aviv have resumed since the end of August. The Dutch airline also expects possible disruptions on its flights to Beirut until October 18.
Lufthansa, like the other companies in the German group AUSTRIAN AIRLINES, BRUSSELS AIRLINES, ITA AIRWAYS and SWISS, does not plan to resume its flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran before October 24, while in parallel, Tel Aviv was once again served since the end of June. As for Dubai, Lufthansa is expected to resume its flights from Munich on October 25, and from Frankfurt on the 26th, with five connections per week. Swiss will also resume its Zurich-Dubai flights daily on October 27. For its part, Austrian will once again connect Vienna to Dubai starting December 12.
EUROWINGS, for its part, is preparing to offer a vast network in the Middle East for the winter of 2026/27. Dubai and Jeddah will thus be served by numerous flights from Berlin, Stuttgart and Cologne/Bonn. Three weekly connections will link Düsseldorf with Tel Aviv, in addition to two weekly flights between Stuttgart and Amman. The service to Beirut will be provided from Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hanover. Moreover, Baghdad will make its debut in its program with two weekly flights from Berlin and Düsseldorf starting December 10.
BRITISH AIRWAYS has already resumed flights to Doha, but with reduced frequencies. According to the Emirati media outlet The National, the British airline is expected to resume its route to Tel Aviv on October 25, then to Dubai and Riyadh on November 3, all on a daily basis. The service to Amman will follow on November 4. As for Abu Dhabi and Bahrain, the resumption is in the more distant future, in early 2027.
IBERIA has announced the cancellation of part of its flights to and from Doha until October 23, with those flights being rerouted on flights operated by Qatar Airways.
FINNAIR will not serve Dubai and Doha before 27 March 2027.
WIZZ AIR should not be serving Dubai and Abu Dhabi before October 24th.
Gulf Companies
EMIRATES is operating a flight schedule close to normal, even though capacities may be reduced compared to pre-crisis levels. Emirates serves Paris with 3 daily rotations, all operated by A380s, Nice also daily with an A380, and Lyon with a daily flight operated by an A350. Most of the world's major cities are also featured in its flight schedule (see its website).
ETIHAD connects Abu Dhabi to 70 destinations worldwide, including Paris CDG, with up to three daily flights.
GULF AIR serves Paris on a daily basis.
KUWAIT AIRLINES serves Paris CDG from Kuwait with a daily flight in October.
Oman Air is operating its network to Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa, as well as to Middle Eastern capitals, as normal.
QATAR AIRWAYS has been offering a near-normal flight schedule since mid-September with 170 destinations including Paris, served with three daily flights, as well as Nice. For the winter season, the Qatari airline will increase the frequency of its flights between Doha and London Heathrow, which will increase from 49 to 56 per week starting October 25, while the line to Frankfurt will benefit from 21 weekly flights, up from 18 previously, starting December 7.
American and Asian companies
AIR CANADA plans to resume its Toronto-Tel Aviv route earlier than expected, starting on November 30, whereas it had previously planned to resume flights by mid-January 2027, along with flights to Dubai. Conversely, the Canadian airline has pushed back this timeframe for its service to the emirate, with flights to Dubai not resuming until the end of March 2027.
CATHAY PACIFIC will not resume service to Dubai and Riyadh until January 31, 2027.
DELTA AIR LINES, after resuming its New York-Tel Aviv flight in early September, is expected to restart its Atlanta-Tel Aviv route on December 18.
UNITED resumed its Newark-New York and Tel Aviv flights on September 8. However, service to Dubai is not expected until March and the start of the 2027 summer season.
JAPAN AIRLINES is cancelling its Tokyo Haneda to Doha flights until 27 March 2027.
KOREAN AIR has suspended the Seoul Incheon-Dubai route until further notice.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES will not resume its flights to Dubai until the 1ster December.
