Airlines around the world are gradually adjusting schedules for flights to and through the Middle East, but the overall pattern remains one of widespread disruption. While a few carriers are setting return dates for select routes, most operators continue to maintain suspensions or delay restarts, extending the interruption of normal service well into the summer and autumn months.
The following is an alphabetical update on the status of airlines' routes to Middle Eastern cities, reflecting the cancellations and restart dates as published by the carriers.
AEGEAN AIRLINES - Greece's largest airline has cancelled flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv until June 26. Its services to Dubai are suspended through August 31, and flights to Erbil and Baghdad are cancelled until September 30.
AIRBALTIC - The Latvian carrier has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28 and flights to Dubai until October 24.
AIR CANADA - The Canadian carrier has cancelled its services to Tel Aviv and Dubai until October 24.
AIR EUROPA - The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28.
AIR FRANCE-KLM - Air France has suspended flights to Tel Aviv until June 21 and has halted services to Beirut and Dubai until June 24. KLM has suspended flights to Riyadh and Dammam until July 26 and to Dubai until August 2.
CATHAY PACIFIC - The Hong Kong carrier has suspended its flights to Dubai and Riyadh until August 31.
DELTA - The U.S. carrier has suspended its Atlanta-Tel Aviv service through December 18. Delta plans to resume New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights on September 6. The planned launch of a Boston-Tel Aviv route, originally scheduled for late October, has been delayed until further notice.
FINNAIR - The Finnish carrier has cancelled Doha flights until October 2 and remains avoiding the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. Finnair will restart Dubai services only in its winter season, beginning in October.
IAG / BRITISH AIRWAYS - IAG-owned British Airways has delayed the resumption of 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. When those services restart, the carrier plans to operate one daily flight to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh and Tel Aviv and will remove Jeddah from its network.
JAPAN AIRLINES - Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until July 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights 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 winter route to Dubai beginning in October.
LUFTHANSA GROUP - Lufthansa has indicated plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv as early as July 1, and ITA Airways has confirmed a July 1 restart for the same destination. SWISS has postponed the resumption of its Tel Aviv services until August, and Brussels Airlines has suspended its operations until October 24. Lufthansa, SWISS and ITA Airways will continue suspensions of Dubai flights 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 until October 24.
EUROWINGS - The low-cost carrier has suspended flights to Tel Aviv until July 9, to Beirut until July 17, to Erbil until June 30 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24.
ITA AIRWAYS - ITA Airways has extended the suspension of flights to Riyadh until July 31.
MALAYSIA AIRLINES - The Malaysian carrier will resume limited services to Doha from July 2.
NORWEGIAN AIR - The low-cost airline has pushed back planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services indefinitely; no new start dates have been announced.
QANTAS - Australia's flag carrier is expanding services to Europe in response to stronger demand. Qantas will add flights to Rome and Paris; Paris services will increase to five return flights per week from three, and the Perth-Singapore service will increase from daily to 10 flights per week. The updated schedule will come into effect progressively, for flights operating from mid-April through late July.
ROYAL AIR MAROC - The Moroccan carrier has cancelled flights to Doha until June 30.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES - Singapore Airlines has extended the suspension of its Singapore-Dubai service until August 2. It has also added services on the Singapore-London Gatwick and Singapore-Melbourne routes from late March until October 24 to address higher demand.
TURKISH AIRLINES / SUNEXPRESS - SunExpress, the joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, has cancelled flights to Dubai until June 30 and flights to Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil until July 14.
WIZZ AIR - The low-cost carrier has suspended flights from mainland Europe to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until mid-September.
The picture that emerges from the patchwork of published schedules is one of cautious, incremental reopening of routes interspersed with extended suspensions. Several major carriers have set restart dates in the July-to-October window, while others have postponed plans indefinitely or maintained cancellations through late October. The disruptions are geographically broad, affecting services to cities across the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant and the Gulf.
For passengers and businesses that depend on those connections, the rolling nature of cancellations and restart announcements means that planning remains challenging. Airlines are adjusting frequency and timing in some cases and removing destinations from networks temporarily, measures that have implications for capacity and route economics.
As airlines continue to publish updated timetables, travellers are advised to check with carriers for the most current information on specific routes, dates and operating frequencies.