Factbox-Airlines cancel more flights as Middle East conflict escalates
Factbox-Airlines cancel more flights as Middle East conflict escalates
ReutersTue, March 31, 2026 at 2:13 PM UTC
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March 31 (Reuters) - Global air travel remains severely disrupted, with many people still unable to fly as planned to destinations after the Iran war forced the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs, including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi.
Below is the latest on flights, in alphabetical order:
Greece's largest carrier has cancelled flights to Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Beirut and Amman until April 30, and to Erbil, Baghdad and Dubai until May 31.
Latvia's airBaltic says all flights to Tel Aviv have been cancelled until May 31. All flights to Dubai are cancelled until October 24.
The Canadian carrier has cancelled all flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until September 7.
The Spanish airline has cancelled all flights to Tel Aviv until May 3.
AIR FRANCE-KLM
Air France has suspended its Tel Aviv, Beirut, Dubai and Riyadh flights until April 19.
KLM has suspended flights to Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until May 17.
The Hong Kong airline has cancelled all passenger flights to Dubai and Riyadh until May 31. To cater for a surge in demand to Europe, it will operate extra passenger flights to London, Paris and Zurich in April.
The U.S. carrier has cancelled its New York-Tel Aviv flights and delayed the restart of its Atlanta-Tel Aviv route until September 5. It said the launch of its Boston-Tel Aviv route, planned for late October, has been delayed until further notice.
The Israeli carrier has said customers who planned to depart Israel through April 11 have had their flights cancelled, including relevant return flights. The airline is operating a limited number of flights to several key destinations.
The UAE airline has said it is operating a reduced flight schedule following a partial reopening of regional airspace.
The UAE carrier has said it is operating a commercial flight schedule between Abu Dhabi and around 80 destinations.
The Finnish carrier has cancelled its Doha flights until July 2, while continuing to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. The airline only restarts its Dubai flights in October.
The Saudi budget airline has suspended flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Doha, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq and Syria until April 15.
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IAG-owned British Airways has extended cancellations of flights to Amman, Bahrain, Dubai and Tel Aviv until May 31 and to Doha until April 30, while adding flights to Bangkok and Singapore. Flights to Abu Dhabi remain suspended until later this year.
IAG's low-cost airline, Iberia Express, has cancelled all flights to and from Tel Aviv through May 31.
JAPAN AIRLINES
Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until April 10 and Doha-Tokyo flights until April 11.
The Polish airline has suspended all its flights to Tel Aviv until May 31. It has also cancelled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut from March 31 to May 30. The airline plans to operate its winter route to Dubai in October.
Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, ITA Airways and Edelweiss have suspended flights to Dubai and Tel Aviv until May 31, and to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran until October 24. Lufthansa Cargo is the same, except for the Tel Aviv suspension, which will last through April 30.
Low-cost carrier Eurowings plans to suspend flights to Tel Aviv, Beirut and Erbil through April 30 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman through October 24.
The Malaysian carrier has suspended all flights to Doha until April 15.
The low-cost airline has pushed back planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services to June 15, from April 1 and April 4, respectively. It has cancelled all Dubai flights through April 8.
Turkey's Pegasus Airlines has cancelled its Iran, Iraq, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah flights until May 1.
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 flights per week. An schedule will come into effect progressively for flights from mid-April and run until late July.
The carrier has said it is gradually increasing flights to and from Doha, with additional flight frequency to more than 90 destinations.
The carrier has extended the suspension of its Singapore-Dubai flights until May 31, while adding services on the Singapore-London Gatwick and Singapore-Melbourne routes from late March until October 24 to meet higher demand.
Turkish Airlines has cancelled most Middle East flights until the end of March. SunExpress, its joint venture with Lufthansa, has cancelled flights to Dubai until April 6 and to Bahrain until April 30.
The low-cost airline has suspended flights to Israel until April 13, and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September. All flights to Medina have been suspended indefinitely.
(Compiled by Josephine Mason, Jamie Freed, Elviira Luoma, Tiago Brandao, Agnieszka Olenska, Bernadette Hogg, Boleslaw Lasocki and Romolo Tosiani. Editing by Sumana Nandy, Joe Bavier and Mark Potter)
Source: “AOL Money”
