Airlines to resume Middle East flights after Israel-Hamas ceasefire
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Carriers including Wizz Air and Lufthansa are reinstating flights to Tel Aviv. Major airlines are planning to reinstate flights to the Middle East following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Over the last 15 months of conflict, several Western carriers pulled out of flights to Israel, Jordan and Lebanon as missile attacks closed skies over Iraq and Iran in unpredictable airspace.
After the announcement that fighting is scheduled to pause this Sunday, Wizz Air resumed links from London to Tel Aviv, Israel and Amman in Jordan from Thursday (16 January). The low-cost Hungarian airline will fly to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport from several European cities, including Budapest, Vienna and Milan.
Lufthansa is similarly set to restart flights to and from Tel Aviv from 1 February across all of the group’s carriers, including Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss. Air France-KLM said its Tel Aviv operations remain paused until 24 January, while its flights connecting Paris and Beirut will stay suspended until the end of this month.
Elsewhere, the national airline of Qatar announced that it will resume weekly flights to Syria 13 years after its cancelling operations. As of 7 January, Qatar Airways offers three weekly flights between Qatar and Damascus, Syria. In 2011, flights by the carrier to and from Damascus and Aleppo were cancelled amid Syria’s civil war.
