April 23 (Reuters) – Global air travel has been severely disrupted, with many unable to fly to destinations after major Middle Eastern hubs including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi were forced to close following the Iran war.
Below is the latest on flights, in alphabetical order:
Aegean Airlines
Greece’s largest carrier will resume flights from Athens to Tel Aviv on April 28, Heraklion on April 30, Rhodes on May 3 and Larnaca on May 21. Flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv have been canceled until June 26.
It will resume flights to Riyadh and Amman on June 21. Flights to Beirut have been canceled until June 26, Dubai until June 29 and Erbil and Baghdad until July 2.
AirBaltic
Latvia’s AirBaltic said flights to Tel Aviv were canceled until May 31. Flights to Dubai have been canceled till October 24.
Air Canada
The Canadian carrier has canceled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until September 7.
AIR EUROPA
Spanish Airlines has canceled flights to Tel Aviv until May 31.
Air France-KLM
Air France has suspended its flights to Tel Aviv, Beirut, Dubai and Riyadh until May 3.
KLM has suspended flights to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until June 14.
Cathay Pacific
Hong Kong Airlines has suspended flights to Dubai and Riyadh until June 30 and cargo services to Dubai and Riyadh until May 31. To meet growing demand in Europe, it will operate additional passenger flights to London, Paris and Zurich in April. It is planned to operate all flights except June.
Delta
The American carrier has canceled its New York-Tel Aviv flights and delayed the resumption of its Atlanta-Tel Aviv route until September 5. It said the launch of the Boston-Tel Aviv route planned for late October has been delayed until further notice.
El Al Israel Airlines
The Israeli carrier said it continues to gradually expand operations, and will operate flights to around 40 active gateways from April 27. All flights to Dubai have been canceled until May 31.
Emirates
UAE Airlines said it was operating a reduced flight schedule, flying to more than 100 destinations.
Etihad Airways
The UAE carrier said it operates a commercial flight schedule between Abu Dhabi and around 80 destinations.
FINNAIR
The Finnish carrier has canceled flights to Doha until July 2, continuing to avoid the airspace of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel. The airline resumes Dubai flights only in October.
IAG
British Airways, owned by IAG, is reducing flights to the Middle East as it resumes services, adding capacity to India and Africa, leaving Jeddah as a permanent destination.
It plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv from July 1 to one daily flight and Riyadh service from two daily flights to one from mid-May. The changes apply to the summer season ending on October 24, with a Dubai service resuming on October 16.
IAG’s Spanish low-cost airline Iberia Express has canceled flights to Tel Aviv until May 31.
Japan Airlines
Japan Airlines has suspended Tokyo-Doha flights until May 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until June 1. The airline will also operate additional flights between Tokyo and London on April 25.
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Polish Airlines suspended its flights to Tel Aviv until May 31. It canceled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and Beirut from March 31 to May 30. The airline plans to operate its winter route to Dubai in October.
Lufthansa Group
Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Edelweiss have suspended flights to Dubai and Tel Aviv until May 31. Flights to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran have been suspended until October 24.
Low-cost carrier Eurowings has suspended flights to Tel Aviv, Beirut and Erbil from May 11 until May 14 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24.
ITA Airways has extended the suspension of flights to Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Dubai till May 31.
Malaysian Airlines
The Malaysian carrier has suspended flights to Doha till June 14.
Norwegian Air
The low-cost airline pushed back the planned launch of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services to June 15.
Pegasus
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines has canceled flights to Iran, Iraq, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah until June 1.
Qantas
Australia’s flag carrier is adding flights to Rome and Paris to meet growing demand for European routes. Flights to Paris will increase from three to five return flights per week and the Perth-Singapore service will increase from daily to 10 flights per week. The updated schedule will be implemented gradually for flights from mid-April and will run until the end of July.
Qatar Airways
The carrier resumed flights to Dubai and Sharjah from April 23 and will resume daily flights to Damascus from May 1.
Royal Air Maroc
The Moroccan carrier said flights to Doha until June 30 and to Dubai until May 31 have been cancelled.
Singapore Airlines
The carrier extended its Singapore-Dubai flight suspension until May 31, while adding services on the Singapore-London Gatwick and Singapore-Melbourne routes until March 24 to meet high demand.
Turkish Airlines
SunExpress, Turkish Airlines’ joint venture with Lufthansa, has canceled flights to Dubai until April 30.
Water Viz
The low-cost airline is delaying the return of flights to Israel until May 4, and suspending flights from mainland European destinations to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until mid-September. All flights to Medina have been suspended indefinitely.
(Compiled by Josephine Mason, Jamie Freed, Elvira Luoma, Tiago Brandao, Agnieszka Olenska, Bernadette Hogg, Boleslaw Lasocki and Romolo Tociani. Editing by Sumana Nandy, Joe Bevier, Mark Potter, Mila Nissi-Proussen and Sumana)
