Middle East: up-to-date flight status by airline for September

The updated list, airline by airline, of cancelled flights in September to the Near and Middle East.
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European companies

AIR FRANCE-KLM: AIR FRANCE has resumed its flights to Tel Aviv and Riyadh. On the other hand, the service to Dubai remains suspended until 10th September. As for flights to Beirut, their resumption is not planned before 24th September inclusive. The passengers concerned will be contacted by the airline and will be able to request the postponement or cancellation of their journey, free of charge. Furthermore, for those with a journey scheduled to/from Riyadh until 14th September, to/from Dubai before 30th September or to/from Beirut before 18th October, Air France is offering a postponement free of charge in the same travel cabin taking place over the following month or cancellation in exchange for a credit note valid for one year.

Transavia resumed flights to Tel Aviv on 31 August, but services to Beirut remain suspended until 14 September.

KLM resumed its flights to and from Tel Aviv on 25 August, but services to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai are suspended until 24 October. The Dutch airline also announced potential disruption to its flights to Beirut until 18 October.

Lufthansa Group

Middle East

Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, ITA Airways and SWISS have all resumed their flights to Tel Aviv. Austrian Airlines will resume its flights to Amman on 2 October and Lufthansa on 25 October, from Frankfurt. While Eurowings has been flying to Beirut since early July, the other airlines in the group have had their flights to and from the Lebanese capital suspended until 24 October. At the same time, Eurowings will not resume its flights to Amman until 7 November.

Middle East :

Lufthansa will resume its service to Riyadh on 10 September, with 3 flights from Frankfurt. On the other hand, regarding Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran, the resumption of flights by group airlines is not expected before 24 October.

BRITISH AIRWAYS has resumed its flights to Doha and will serve Riyadh from the 1ster October, but with reduced frequencies. On 24 October, the British airline is expected to resume its services to Dubai, Amman and Tel Aviv. On the other hand, the resumption of flights to Abu Dhabi 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 23 October.

FINNAIR will not serve Dubai and Doha before 27 March 2027.

Wizz Air should not be operating services to Dubai and Abu Dhabi before 24 October. However, its flights to Amman are expected to resume on 21 September.

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 at a rate of 5 flights per week, also by A380, and Lyon with a daily flight operated by an A350. Most major global cities are also included 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, which had resumed a large part of its network in Bahrain at the beginning of June, serves Paris and Nice.

KUWAIT AIRLINES is serving Paris CDG from Kuwait with four weekly flights in September, followed by 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 is offering until September 15th a flight schedule close to normal with 160 destinations including Paris, served at a rate of three daily flights, and Nice, but also London and New York as well as some twenty major cities in Europe and a large number of cities in the Middle East and Asia.

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 mid-January 2027.

Cathay Pacific will not resume service to Dubai and Riyadh before 30 November.

DELTA AIR LINES resumed its New York-Tel Aviv flight on 6 September. The Atlanta-Tel Aviv route is not expected before 18 December.

UNITED restarted its Newark-New York and Tel Aviv flights on 8 September. On the other hand, the Dubai service is not expected until March and the start of the summer 2027 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: Dubai service suspended until October 24.