Photo: Frame Stock Footage / Shutterstock A number of international airlines have announced the suspension of their operations to the Middle East. Here are the latest updates:
United Airlines: The airline has canceled all flights to and from Tel Aviv until September 7, 2026. Flights to Dubai have been canceled through Friday, March 27, 2026. "If your flight is impacted, we’ll notify you directly. You can also check your flight status or use the United App to see if your upcoming flight was affected. There’s also a travel waiver in place through April 19 if you’d like to proactively change your travel plans."
Air India, Air India Express and IndiGo will resume flights to Doha Qatar, on May 1, 2026.
The airline has extended the cancellation of its flights to Tel Aviv until the end of June 2026, inclusive.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines: Flights to and from Tel Aviv remain suspended up to and including May 17, 2026. Similarly, flights to and from Dammam and Riyadh are suspended up to and including Sunday, May 17, 2026, while flights to and from Dubai are suspended up to and including Sunday, May 17, 2026.
Delta Air Lines: The company has canceled flights to Israel until September 5, "due to the security situation" affecting the city. Passengers are advised to perform frequent flight status checks or set up direct updates on their phones or by email via One-Time Notification. Tickets must be reissued on or before February 28, 2027, while booked travel must begin no later than February 28, 2027.
American Airlines: The company extended the cancellation of flights to and from Israel until September 10, after a previous term set for July 3. Last week, the airline announced it will waive change fees for passengers traveling to, through, or from Abu Dhabi (AUH), Amman (AMM), Bahrain (BAH), Doha (DOH), Dubai (DXB), and Larnaca (LCA) in any fare class, including Basic Economy, for tickets purchased by February 27 and flights scheduled between February 28 and March 15.
Plus, a separate waiver applies to flights to, through, or from Cairo (CAI) and Tel Aviv (TLV), covering passengers who bought tickets by February 27 and were scheduled to travel between February 28 and March 10.
Tus Airways: The airline has resumed its flights to Tel Aviv on April 14.
SkyUp NISTRU Airlines: The Moldovan (former Ukrainian) airline has resuming operations on the route between Tel Aviv and Chisinau, Moldova, on May 3, 2026. The company will now operate four weekly flights on the route.
Sky Express: All scheduled flights from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV), as well as flights from Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) to Athens International Airport (ATH), have resumed on April 16.
TAP Air Portugal: the airline has canceled its flights to Tel Aviv until July 1 (inclusive). On July 2, the company is expected to return with 5 weekly flights on the Lisbon route and in October open the route to Porto.
Anima Wings: The Romanian company has canceled all flights to Israel until August 9.
Bulgaria Air: The Bulgarian airline will resume operations on the route between Tel Aviv and Sofia on June 4, 2026. In the first phase, flights will operate at a frequency of two per week, and later this month the company plans to increase the frequency to four per week.
Transavia: The airline has canceled its flights to and from Beirut until the end of the season. "All flights to and from Dubai have been canceled until April 18th. After April 19th, the season stops and we don’t operate flights to and from Dubai anymore. The main booker has been informed by email and/or SMS. In this message, you can read more information about the available options for your trip", said the company's announcement on April 1.
Air Europa: The airline has extended the cancellation of its flights to Israel until June 28, 2026, inclusive.
LOT Polish Airlines: Starting June 1, the company has started operating one daily flight on the Warsaw-Tel Aviv route, with another daily flight to be added on June 8, bringing the total number of daily flights operated between Warsaw and Ben Gurion Airport to two.
At the same time, the company will also resume operating the route between Krakow and Tel Aviv with a frequency of five weekly flights.
June 8 update: The company canceled night flight LO151/LO152, which was scheduled to take off on June 8 to and from Israel.
Air France: The company has extended flight cancellations to and from Riyadh until Jun 2, 2026 inclusive, Beirut and Dubai until June 17, 2026 inclusive (i.e. until June 18, 2026 for flights departing from Dubai), and Tel Aviv until June 21, 2026 inclusive.
Wizz Air: The low-cost carrier has resumed its operations to Israel starting May 28. On June 8, the company announced the temporary suspension of all its flights to and from Israel today and tomorrow (June 8-June 9), in light of the security escalation in the region.
Today, June 9, 20206, the airline announced it will once again resume operations as planned on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
Flights from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Amman, and Saudi Arabia to European destinations will remain suspended until The airline will resume flights to Beirut on May 12 and to Riyadh and Amman on May 21. Flights to Dubai are canceled until August 31,
Cyprus Airrways: the company has resumed its flights from Larnaca to Tel Aviv starting April 23, 2026, at 5:55 PM (GMT+3).
Throughout the week, daily flights from Ben Gurion Airport are expected to depart during a fixed time window between 3:30 PM and 6:00 PM, allowing maximum flexibility for travelers and convenient connections to the company's connecting flights, primarily the popular destination of Athens.
Smartwings announced the first flight on the renewed Prague-Tel Aviv route will take off tonight at 11:45 P.M. local time from Prague and land at 04:35 A.M. in Tel Aviv. The flight from Tel Aviv to Prague will take off at 05:35. In the first phase, 4 flights will be operated on the route, on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
British Airways: After announcing that it will resume its route to Tel Aviv on July 1, 2026, reducing the schedule from two daily flights to one daily flight, the carrier announced that flights to Israel will remain canceled until October 24.
The airline has also announced it will reduce flights to Dubai from three flights a day to one daily flight, and flights from Doha from two daily to one a day, also starting July 1st.
Flights to Larnaca and Riyadh will also be resumed on May 22, while Bahrain and Amman services will not resume before October 25. The company also announced the closure of the route to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 24.
airBaltic: Flights to and from Tel Aviv will resume on May 31, 2026. All flights to and from Dubai have been canceled until 24 October 2026 (inclusive).
Air Canada: All flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai are canceled until September 7, 2026 (inclusive). The company emphasized that passengers staying in these areas are asked not to arrive at the airport without a confirmed flight with another airline
Lufthansa Group Airlines: The Swiss airline SWISS, part of the Lufthansa group, which announced last month its intention to return to Israel on July 1, is once again postponing its return and will not resume operations on the Tel Aviv-Zurich route before August of this year.
The airlines from the largest airline group in Europe are not operating in a uniform manner in this round. Austrian Airlines resumed operations today (2.6.26) on the route between Tel Aviv and its capital Vienna.
As of June 8, 2026, Austrian announced the suspension of its flights to and from Israel until June 12 (inclusive), following the security developments and events that have occurred since last night.
The company canceled its flight that was scheduled to arrive from Vienna tonight and take off back this morning, and as mentioned, is now extending the suspension of flights until June 12.
The Italian airline ITA announced today its return to Israel starting July 1. Lufthansa itself is expected to resume operations on the routes to Frankfurt and Munich in early July.
Unlike SWISS, the Italian airline ITA, also a member of the Lufthansa group, announced the renewal of the route between Rome and Tel Aviv as early as July 1, with a frequency of two daily flights.
Eurowings is currently expected to return in mid-July, while Brussels Airlines has extended the suspension of flights to Israel until October 24, 2026
Brussels Airlines, on the other hand, has at this stage suspended its flights to Ben Gurion Airport until October 24, 2026.
SWISS flights to Dubai will remain suspended until September 13 and to Beirut until October 24, 2026.
Lufthansa Gorup Airlines flights to and from Amman, Dammam, Erbil, Beirut, Tehran, Riyadh, Muscat, and Tehran will remain suspended until October 24 , 2026.
"Affected guests can rebook to a later travel date free of charge or alternatively request a full refund of the ticket price."
Lufthansa says that "Passengers on all affected Lufthansa Group flights to the abovementioned destinations, whose flights have already been canceled, may request a full refund at Help Center | Lufthansa or through their travel agent or a rebooking on any later LHG operated flight". At the same time, guests who hold LHG tickets to TLV, AMM, BEY, EBL, DMM und DXB issued on or before March 1, 2026, that have not yet been cancelled with original travel dates up to March 15, 2026, will be allowed to rebook free of charge onto any LHG-operated flights from March 16, 2026 up to March 31, 2026 or ask for a refund.
ITA Airways: The airline announced the resumption of its direct flights between Rome and Tel Aviv starting July 1, 2026.
Aegean Airlines resumed its flights to Tel Aviv on April 28, sooner than anticipated.a
Affected passengers may ask for a full refund, credit vouchers, or ticket change with no additional fees.
flyDubai: Flights to and from Tel Aviv have resumed on April 30. On June 8, the airline announced the cancellation of two flights on the Israel-Dubai route following the security escalation and developments in the region on June 8 and June 9.
These are flights FZ1626 and FZ1808, which operate during the hours of darkness. Following the decision, the company's operations on the route will be reduced from seven daily flights to five flights per day.
Etihad: The company resumed operations on the Tel Aviv-Abu Dhabi route on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, with two daily flights. The flights from Tel Aviv will operate at 2:40 PM (EY594) and 7:50 PM (EY598), with landings in Abu Dhabi at 7:15 PM and 12:25 AM, respectively.
All flights will be operated using an Airbus A321LR aircraft that recently joined the company's fleet, in a three-class configuration: economy, business and first, including 14 business seats that open into a full bed and two seats in first class. The airline also announced special prices on the company's flights to the Far East: to Bangkok starting at $1,250 and to Tokyo starting at $1,648.
Emirates: The company has announced "the limited re-opening of airspace" and the operation of a "reduced flight schedule until further notice" to these destinations. Passengers are advised to check availability. Those transiting in Dubai "will only be accepted for travel if their connecting flight is operating."
Kuwait Airways: The airline has resumed operational flights from Kuwait International Airport, Terminal 4 (T4) "in compliance with safety procedures" effective from Sunday, April 26.
Azerbaijan Airlines: Despite previously announcing that it will resume operations on the Tel Aviv-Baku route with an impressive frequency of up to 2 daily flights, starting Friday, May 1, the airline has not followed through.
The Azerbaijani airline did not take off from Ben Gurion Airport and announced that it is canceling its flights to Israel tomorrow (May 2) as well. No specific reason was given for the cancellation of the route to Baku.
Centrum Air: Starting May 3, Centrum Air will operate three weekly flights to Tel Aviv, including two weekly flights from Samarkand and one from Tashkent, with a fixed schedule throughout the week.
Air Seychelles: the airline had originally announced it will return to Tel Aviv on May 7. In an annoucement made on June 10, the company said it will continue to suspend its operations on the Tel Aviv-Maha route until August 5. Flights HM21 and HM22 in the other direction will not resume until this date.
Tarom: the Romanian company has resumed flights to Tel Aviv on May 2.
Iberia Express: The company has canceled all its flights to and from Tel Aviv until July 1, when it will operate one daily flight.
BlueBird: the airline has resumed flights on the Athens-Tel Aviv route on April 12.
Ethiopian Airlines announced it has canceled all flights to and from Flights to and from Erbil and Baghdad until the early morning hours of 25 May 2026..
The company has resumed flights to and from Tel Aviv on April 17, 2026.
"To avoid further inconvenience, passengers traveling to or from the region are strongly encouraged to check their flight status through our official digital channels at https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/et/book/booking/flight-staus."
Hainan Airlines: After previously announcing it would likely resume Tel Aviv flights on May 3, subject to approval from the China Civil Aviation Authority, the airline has now issued an update: all flights remain canceled until further notice.
Several other airlines announced they would resume their flights to Israel, marking a significant recovery in international connectivity. These include Red Wings, Georgian Airways, FlyOne, with the latter originally announcing it would reopen the Tel Aviv-Chisinau route on May 3, 2026, but later postponed with no new operational date provided.