Air carriers are cautiously restoring select routes to the Middle East as regional airlines increase capacity after severe disruption tied to the Iran war. However, broader network impacts persist: many non-Gulf carriers continue to divert or suspend flights to steer clear of the affected area.
Below is a company-by-company update, presented alphabetically, on the status of services to Middle East destinations. Each entry reflects cancellations, suspensions, resumed services or schedule adjustments as reported.
AEGEAN AIRLINES - Greece's largest airline has cancelled services from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv through June 26. Its routes to Dubai are suspended until August 31, while flights to Erbil and Baghdad are cancelled through July 2.
AIRBALTIC - Latvia's airBaltic will not operate flights to Tel Aviv until June 28 and has pulled services to Dubai through October 24.
AIR CANADA - The Canadian carrier has cancelled its flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until September 7.
AIR EUROPA - The Spanish airline has suspended services to Tel Aviv until June 28.
AIR FRANCE-KLM - Air France has halted its Tel Aviv flights until June 14. It has also suspended flights to Beirut and Dubai until June 17 and to Riyadh until June 2. KLM has suspended flights to Riyadh and Dammam until July 12 and to Dubai until August 2.
CATHAY PACIFIC - The Hong Kong carrier has suspended its Dubai and Riyadh services until August 31.
DELTA - The U.S. airline has suspended its Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through December 18. It intends to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6, while the planned Boston-Tel Aviv launch for late October has been delayed indefinitely.
FINNAIR - The Finnish carrier has cancelled flights to Doha until October 2 and continues to avoid the airspace above Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. Finnair will restart its Dubai service on its customary winter schedule in October.
IAG - The IAG group, owner of British Airways, has postponed its resumption of flights to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv until August 1. When services restart, BA plans to limit frequency on routes to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh and Tel Aviv to a single daily flight and has decided to drop Jeddah as a destination permanently.
JAPAN AIRLINES - Scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights have been suspended until July 31, and Doha-Tokyo services are suspended until August 1.
LOT - The Polish carrier has cancelled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut until June 27. LOT plans to operate its seasonal winter route to Dubai beginning in October.
LUFTHANSA GROUP - Lufthansa has indicated plans to resume Tel Aviv flights as early as July 1, and ITA Airways confirmed it would restart Tel Aviv services from July 1 as well. SWISS has pushed back the resumption of its Tel Aviv services until August, while Brussels Airlines has suspended operations to several destinations until October 24. The Lufthansa Group carriers - Lufthansa, SWISS and ITA Airways - will keep Dubai flights suspended until September 13. Additionally, Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines have suspended services to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran through October 24. Eurowings, the group's low-cost unit, has 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 has also extended the suspension of Riyadh flights until June 30.
MALAYSIA AIRLINES - Malaysia's flag carrier will restart limited services to Doha beginning July 2.
NORWEGIAN AIR - The low-cost carrier has delayed the planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services to June 15.
QANTAS - Australia's flag carrier is adding capacity on European routes to meet stronger demand. The airline will increase flights to Paris to five return services per week from three and will raise the Perth-Singapore frequency from daily to 10 weekly flights. An updated schedule will be implemented progressively, covering services from mid-April through late July.
ROYAL AIR MAROC - The Moroccan carrier has cancelled flights to Doha through June 30.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES - The carrier has extended the suspension of its Singapore-Dubai service until August 2. To address higher demand on other long-haul markets, it has added services on the Singapore-London Gatwick and Singapore-Melbourne routes from late March through October 24.
TURKISH AIRLINES / SUNEXPRESS - SunExpress, the joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, has cancelled flights to Dubai, Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil until June 30.
WIZZ AIR - The low-cost carrier has suspended flights from mainland Europe to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until mid-September.
Regional carriers have been able to add capacity in some markets as they rebuild their schedules after significant disruption. Nevertheless, many international carriers continue to divert Europe-Asia routings and maintain suspensions for safety and operational reasons, prolonging disruptions to global traffic flows.
Travelers and markets will likely watch closely for further schedule updates, resumption announcements and any changes in the operating environment that could either facilitate a fuller return of services or force additional adjustments.