Factbox-Airlines resume some Middle East flights but disruption continues
Current Status of Airline Flights to the Middle East
June 16 (Reuters) - Some airlines are gradually restoring some flights to the Middle East although most suspensions are still in force after the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, disrupting global travel.
Below is an update on the status of airlines' flights, in alphabetical order:
AEGEAN AIRLINES
Flight Cancellations and Suspensions
Greece's largest carrier cancelled flights from Thessaloniki to Tel Aviv until June 26. Flights to Dubai are cancelled until August 31, and to Erbil and Baghdad until September 30.
AIRBALTIC
Flight Cancellations
Latvia's airBaltic has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28 and flights to Dubai until October 24.
AIR CANADA
Service Suspensions
The Canadian carrier has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until October 24.
AIR EUROPA
Flight Status
The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until June 28.
AIR FRANCE-KLM
Air France
Air France has suspended its Tel Aviv flights until June 23, to Beirut until June 24 and to Dubai until June 30.
KLM
KLM suspended flights to Riyadh and Dammam until July 26 and to Dubai until August 2.
CATHAY PACIFIC
Suspended Routes
The Hong Kong airline has suspended flights to Dubai and Riyadh until August 31.
DELTA
Service Updates
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
Flight Adjustments
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
British Airways and Group Airlines
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. It 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
Suspended Flights
Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until July 31 and Doha-Tokyo flights until August 1.
LOT
Flight Cancellations
The Polish airline has cancelled flights to Riyadh until June 30 and to Beirut until June 27. LOT plans to operate its winter route to Dubai from October.
LUFTHANSA GROUP
Lufthansa, SWISS, ITA Airways, Brussels Airlines
Lufthansa plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv as early as July 1, while ITA Airways confirmed it would resume them from July 1. SWISS postponed the resumption of flights until August and Brussels Airlines suspended operations until October 24.
Lufthansa, SWISS and ITA Airways 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.
Eurowings
Low-cost carrier Eurowings 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 also extended the suspension of its flights to Riyadh until July 31.
MALAYSIA AIRLINES
Service Resumption
The Malaysian carrier will resume limited services to Doha from July 2.
NORWEGIAN AIR
Planned Launches
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.
ROYAL AIR MAROC
Flight Cancellations
The Moroccan carrier said flights to Doha were cancelled until June 30.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES
Suspended and Added Routes
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
SunExpress, Turkish Airlines' joint venture with Lufthansa, has cancelled flights to Dubai until June 30 and to Bahrain, Beirut and Erbil until July 14.
WIZZ AIR
Suspended Destinations
The low-cost airline suspended flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman from mainland European destinations until mid-September.
Compiled by Reuters
(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, Alexander Smith, Susan Fenton, Milla Nissi-Prussak, Jonathan Ananda, Joe Bavier and Louise Heavens)
