Israel flights disrupted due to Middle East volatility

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******* flights disrupted due to Middle East volatility

Passengers checks their flight status in the departure terminal in Ben Gurion airport on the morning after a drone and missile ******* from Iran, near Tel Aviv, ******* on Sunday, April 14, 2024. 

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Flights to ******* are set to remain disrupted for months amid heightened tensions with Iran, while other routes may take longer as airlines skirt the volatile region.

British low-cost carrier easyJet

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its suspension of ******* flights for the remainder of the summer season, until Oct. 27, and would refund customers due to fly.

Rival Wizz Air resumed flights to Tel Aviv on Tuesday but said that passengers may experience “schedule changes” and that it was monitoring the situation.

Dutch airline KLM canceled flights to ******* until April 21, and said it was not flying over Iran and *******. Air India said it had temporarily suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv and its Tuesday service was listed as canceled.

Germany’s Lufthansa Group said it had resumed flights to Tel Aviv, Amman, Jordan, and Irbil, Iraq, on Tuesday, but had canceled flights to Tehran, Iran, and Beirut up until Thursday. It also said it is not using Iranian airspace currently.

******* Airlines, the only U.S. airline currently flying to *******, suspended flights and has offered customers due to travel to Tel Aviv before May 1 a full refund; while Air Canada has warned of delays to ******* services.

Along with flights from national carrier El Al, flights from ********* airlines Swiss, Transavia and AeroItalia were en route to Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon London time, according to Flightradar24 data.

******* closed its airspace for a ******* over the weekend after Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles against military targets inside the country on Saturday. The ******* caused limited damage and no fatalities, but huge uncertainty surrounds *******’s response and the potential for an escalation of tensions in the region.

Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq also temporarily closed their airspaces.

Flightradar24 over the Middle East on April 14th, 2024 after Iran launched drone strikes towards *******.

Source: Flightradar24

Passengers across the board are being advised to check for updates from their airlines, with flights including ******** services to Iran and various services to Jordan also impacted.

The tensions are also impacting routes which fly over the Middle East when traveling to other parts of the world, particularly Europe-to-Asia routes.

The ********* Commission and the

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there was “no overflight risk for civil aviation at any time” during the airspace closures.

However, it has issued an advisory for airlines to “exercise caution” over ******* and neighboring airspace measuring 100 nautical miles around the country. It also urged caution for travel over Iran.

With airlines also avoiding the airspace of both Russia and Ukraine due to the ongoing war, it gives Europe-Asia connections the options of flying across Central Asia or south of the region. Diversions have already led to some knock-on delays of up to two hours, according to

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in the U.K.

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it is not using Iranian airspace which may impact flight times from Doha. Qatar.

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