Several airlines have extended the suspension of flights to and from Israel and Lebanon amid rising tensions in the already volatile Middle East following Iran’s missile attacks on Israel. It came as Israeli airspace reopened following Iran’s missile barrage and flights were expected to resume in the next hour.
Tensions in the region, which teeters on the brink of an all-out war, rose after Israel launched a limited ground campaign in Lebanon on October 8 to target Hezbollah strongholds. This operation happened after chief Hassan Nasrallah. The Iran-backed group was killed in an airstrike last week.
Top airlines including Lufthansa, KLM, Emirates and Swiss have announced they are suspending their flights to Israel, Iran and Lebanon as tensions rise in the region, following Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza since October 7 last year. There was already a conflict going on.
Here is a list of some of the airlines that have canceled flights to the Middle East:
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As Israel threatened to launch a retaliatory strike on Israel and continued its offensive into Lebanon and Gaza, Dutch airline KLM said it was suspending its flights to Tel Aviv until the end of the year “in view of the situation in the region”. have been suspended, spokeswoman Elvira van der Wis told AFP news agency. In August, KLM announced that all flights to Israel were suspended until 26 October.
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German airline Lufthansa said it was suspending flights to Beirut until November 30, to Tel Aviv until October 31 and to Tehran until October 14, AFP reported. Apologizing for the inconvenience caused to passengers, the airline said it would avoid Iranian, Iraqi and Jordanian airspace until October 2, and Israeli airspace until October 31.