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Factbox-Airlines resume some Middle East flights but disruption continues

SARAH MEYSSONNIER
SARAH MEYSSONNIER
Jul 8, 2026
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July 8 (Reuters) - More airlines are restoring flights to parts of the Middle East after the conflict that followed U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, but some carriers have kept suspensions in place.

Below is an update on the status of airlines' flights, in alphabetical order:

AEGEAN AIRLINES

Greece's largest carrier cancelled its flights to Dubai until August 31, and to Erbil and Baghdad until September 30.

AIRBALTIC

Flights to Dubai are cancelled until October 24.

AIR CANADA

The Canadian carrier has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until October 24.

AIR FRANCE-KLM

Air France has suspended its Beirut flights until July 20. It resumed its flights to Dubai on July 8, to Riyadh on June 6 and to Tel Aviv on July 3.

KLM suspended flights to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until August 23.

CATHAY PACIFIC

The Hong Kong airline plans to resume its flights to Dubai and to Riyadh from September 1.

DELTA

The U.S. carrier has suspended services for the Atlanta-Tel Aviv route through December 18. It plans to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6, while the launch of its Boston-Tel Aviv route, planned for late October, has been delayed until further notice.

FINNAIR

The Finnish carrier has cancelled its Doha flights until October 2, while continuing to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. It will restart Dubai flights, which it operates only in the winter season, in October.

IAG

IAG-owned British Airways delayed the resumption of its flights to Doha until August 1 and to Riyadh until August 8. Flights to Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bahrain and Amman are paused until the end of the summer season, and are scheduled to resume on October 25.

The airline plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh and Tel Aviv to one daily flight when they resume, while dropping Jeddah as a destination.

JAPAN AIRLINES

Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until August 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until September 1.

LOT

The Polish airline plans to operate its winter route to Dubai from October and to resume operations toBeirutin its Summer 2027 schedule.

LUFTHANSA GROUP

SWISS postponed the resumption of flights until August, andBrussels Airlines suspended operations until October 24.

Lufthansa and SWISS will continue their suspension of Dubai flights until September 13.

Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines suspended flights to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran until October 24.

Low-cost carrier Eurowings plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv on July 10. After restarting its Erbil and Beirut flights on July 1, the airline expects to resume the remaining Middle East destinations in autumn.

ITA Airways has also extended the suspension of its flights to Riyadh until July 31 and to Dubai until October 24 for operational reasons.

NORWEGIAN AIR

The low-cost airline has pushed back planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services indefinitely, and no new start dates have been decided.

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, resumed its Izmir-Dubai route on July 7 and plans to resume its Antalya-Dubai route on July 15. Flights to Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil are cancelled until July 14.

WIZZ AIR

The low-cost airline has suspended flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September.

(Compiled by Josephine Mason, Jamie Freed, Elviira Luoma, Tiago Brandao, Agnieszka Olenska, Bernadette Hogg, Boleslaw Lasocki, Alexander Klyve Gudbrandsen and Romolo Tosiani. Editing by Matt Scuffham, Louise Heavens and Jan Harvey)