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Factbox-Airlines cancel flights amid Middle East conflict
Apr 21, 2026 6:26 AM

April 21 (Reuters) - Global air travel remains severely disrupted, with many people 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:

AEGEAN AIRLINES

Greece's largest carrier will resume its flights from Athens to Tel Aviv on April 28, but cancelled flights from Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Rhodes, Larnaca to Tel Aviv until June 26. The airline cancelled flights to Riyadh and Amman until June 28 and to Beirut until June 26. It cancelled flights to Erbil and Baghdad until July 2 and to Dubai until June 29.

AIRBALTIC

Latvia's airBaltic says flights to Tel Aviv have been cancelled until May 31. Flights to Dubai are cancelled until October 24.

AIR CANADA

The Canadian carrier has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai until September 7.

AIR EUROPA

The Spanish airline has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv until May 31.

AIR FRANCE-KLM

Air France has suspended its Tel Aviv, Beirut, Dubai and Riyadh flights until May 3.

KLM has suspended flights to Riyadh, Dammam and Dubai until June 14.

CATHAY PACIFIC

The Hong Kong airline has suspended flights to Dubai and Riyadh until June 30 and cargo freighter services 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. It plans to operate all scheduled flights beyond June.

DELTA

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.

EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES

The Israeli carrier said it is continuing to gradually expand operations, and from April 27 will operate flights to about 40 active gateways. All flights to Dubai are cancelled until May 31.

EMIRATES

The UAE airline has said it is operating a reduced flight schedule, flying to more than 100 destinations.

ETIHAD AIRWAYS

The UAE carrier said it is operating a commercial flight schedule between Abu Dhabi and around 80 destinations.

FINNAIR

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.

IAG

IAG-owned British Airways is reducing flights to the Middle East when services resume, permanently dropping Jeddah as a destination, while adding capacity to India and Africa.

It plans to reduce services to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv to one daily flight from July  1, and to cut Riyadh services from two daily flights to one from mid-May. Changes apply through the summer season that ends on October 24, with one Dubai service restarting on October 16.

IAG's Spanish low-cost airline Iberia Express has cancelled flights to Tel Aviv through May 31.

JAPAN AIRLINES

Japan Airlines has suspended scheduled Tokyo-Doha flights until May 10 and Doha-Tokyo flights until May 11. The airline also announced extra flights between Tokyo and London on April 25.

LOT

The Polish airline suspended its flights to Tel Aviv until May 31. It 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 GROUP

Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Edelweiss 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.

ITA Airways has extended the suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv and Riyadh until May 10. Flights to and from Dubai are suspended until May 31.

Low-cost carrier Eurowings plans to suspend flights to Tel Aviv until May 11, to Beirut and Erbil until May 14 and to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Amman until October 24.

MALAYSIA AIRLINES

The Malaysian carrier suspended flights to Doha until June 14.

NORWEGIAN AIR

The low-cost airline has pushed back planned launches of its Tel Aviv and Beirut services to June 15.

PEGASUS

Turkey's Pegasus Airlines cancelled its Iran, Iraq, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah flights until June 1.

ROYAL AIR MAROC

The Moroccan carrier says flights to Doha are cancelled until June 30 and those to Dubai until May 31.

QANTAS

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 updated schedule will come into effect progressively for flights from mid-April and run until late July.

QATAR AIRWAYS

The carrier said it was expanding its international flight network, with services to more than 150 destinations from June 16.

SINGAPORE AIRLINES

The carrier extended its Singapore-Dubai flights suspension 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

SunExpress, Turkish Airlines' joint venture with Lufthansa, has cancelled flights to Dubai until April 30.

WIZZ AIR

The low-cost airline is delaying the return of flights to Israel until May 4, and is suspending flights 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, Mark Potter, Milla Nissi-Prussak and Susan Fenton)

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