May 7 (Reuters) – Middle Eastern carriers have ramped up capacity after severe disruption from the Iran war, while airlines outside the Gulf reroute flights between Europe and Asia away from major hubs in the region.
Below is the latest on flights, in alphabetical order:
AEGEAN AIRLINES
Greece’s largest carrier will resume flights to Tel Aviv from Heraklion, Rhodes and Larnaca on May 21. Flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv are cancelled until June 26.
The airline will resume flights to Beirut on May 12 and to Riyadh and Amman on May 21. Flights to Dubai are cancelled until August 31, and to Erbil and Baghdad until July 2.
AIRBALTIC
Latvia’s airBaltic says flights to Tel Aviv have been cancelled until June 28. Flights to Dubai are cancelled until October 24.
AIR CANADA
The Canadian carrier has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until September 7.
AIR EUROPA
The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until May 31.
AIR FRANCE-KLM
Air France has suspended its Tel Aviv, Beirut and Dubai flights until May 20 and to Riyadh until May 12.
KLM has suspended flights to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until June 28.
CATHAY PACIFIC
The Hong Kong airline has suspended flights to Dubai and Riyadh until June 30 and cargo freighter services to Dubai and Riyadh until May 31. It plans to operate all scheduled flights beyond June.
DELTA
The U.S. carrier has extended its suspension of services for the Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through November 30 and plans to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6. It said the launch of its Boston-Tel Aviv route, planned for late October, has been delayed until further notice.
EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES
All flights to Dubai are cancelled until May 31.
EMIRATES
The United Arab Emirates airline said it is now operating to 137 destinations.
ETIHAD AIRWAYS
The United Arab Emirates carrier said it is operating a commercial flight schedule between Abu Dhabi and around 80 destinations.
FINNAIR
The Finnish carrier has cancelled its Doha flights until July 2, while continuing to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. It will only restart Dubai flights in October.
IAG
IAG-owned British Airways is reducing flights to the Middle East when services resume, permanently dropping Jeddah as a destination, while adding capacity to India and Africa.
It plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv to one daily flight from July 1, and to cut Riyadh services from two daily flights to one from mid‑May. Changes apply through the summer season that ends on October 24, with one Dubai service restarting on October 16.
IAG’s Spanish low-cost airline Iberia Express has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv through May 31.
JAPAN AIRLINES
Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until May 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until June 1.
LOT
The Polish airline suspended flights to Tel Aviv until May 31. It also cancelled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut from March 31 to June 19. LOT plans to operate its winter route to Dubai in October.
LUFTHANSA GROUP
Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Edelweiss have suspended flights to Tel Aviv until May 31 and to Dubai until July 11. Flights to Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran are suspended until October 24.
Low-cost carrier Eurowings suspended flights to Tel Aviv until July 9, to Beirut until June 12, to Erbil until June 22 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24.
ITA Airways extended the suspension of flights to Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Dubai until May 31.
MALAYSIA AIRLINES
The Malaysian carrier will resume limited services to Doha from June 2.
NORWEGIAN AIR
The low-cost airline has pushed back planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services to June 15.
PEGASUS
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines cancelled its Iran, Iraq, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah flights until June 1.
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.
QATAR AIRWAYS
The carrier said it will resume passenger flights to Baghdad, Basra and Erbil airports in Iraq starting on May 10. It said it is expanding its international flight network to over 150 destinations from June 16.
ROYAL AIR MAROC
The Moroccan carrier said flights to Doha were cancelled until June 30 and those to Dubai until May 31.
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 cancelled flights to Dubai until June 7.
WIZZ AIR
The low-cost airline is suspending flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September. All flights to Medina suspended indefinitely.
(Compiled by Josephine Mason, Jamie Freed, Elviira Luoma, Tiago Brandao, Agnieszka Olenska, Bernadette Hogg, Boleslaw Lasocki and Romolo Tosiani. Editing by Rod Nickel, Lisa Shumaker, Jonathan Ananda, Matt Scuffham, Alexander Smith and Susan Fenton)
