Brussels Airlines has announced the resumption of flights from the Belgian capital to Tel Aviv, from 1 August 2026, putting an end to the most recent pause in operations since the Hamas attacks in October 2023.<\/p>\n
One flight per week will fly from Brussels Airport at Zaventem to Ben Gurion Airport on Israel\u2019s Mediterranean coast, operating on a Wednesday. According to airline spokesperson Jo\u00eblle Neeb, the service will be crewed in the first month by volunteer staff who are training or in administrative posts because many regular crew members have refused to work the route due to security concerns and regional unrest. Christian trade union ACV Puls\/CNE had even called on its members not to handle Israeli flights as part of a refusal \u201cto be involved in the normalisation of relations with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lufthansa Group and Star Alliance member Brussels Airlines joins a number of international carriers that have restarted service, while others are still in the process of resuming schedules. Would-be travellers to or from Israel should check directly with their airline for the latest updates before making plans.<\/p>\n
Other major European Tel Aviv services that have resumed or are resuming in June include:<\/p>\n
Austrian Airlines flights from Vienna;
\nBulgaria Air, El Al, and Wizz flights from Sofia and Varna;
\nArkia, Cyprus Air, El Al, Israir, TUS Air, and Wizz Air have resumed to and from Larnaca.
\nPrague and Tel Aviv are connected by El Al, Smartwings, Israir, and Bluebird
\nCopenhagen \u2013 operated by SAS, El Al, Norwegian Air
\nCairo \u2013 operated by EgyptAir
\nAddis Ababa is served by Ethiopian Airlines
\nParis is served by Air France, Arkia, El Al, and Transavia
\nBerlin is served by Bluebird and Israir, while other German city connectivity should open up through a number of carriers by mid-July.
\nEl Al, LOT, and Wizz Air have returned to Warsaw.
\nBucharest is currently served by El Al, Tarom, and Wizz Air, and elsewhere in Romania, Wizz Air flies to Iasi and Wizz Air flies to Cluj.
\nWizz also flies to Bratislava
\nEl Al, Arkia, Israir, Bluebird all fly to Barcelona.
\nMadrid \u00a0is served by Air Europa, El Al, and Iberia
\nMalaga services are offered in the summer months by Israir<\/p>\n
Disruption to commercial aviation in the Middle East has been ongoing since February 2026, when the United States and Israel attacked Iran, prompting military conflict and the closure of the key transit channel, the Strait of Hormuz. Prior to that, routes to Israel had already suffered multiple suspensions since the Hamas attacks of October 2023 and subsequent Israeli retaliations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brussels Airlines has announced the resumption of flights from the Belgian capital to Tel Aviv, from 1 August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[709,708,14520,18,1528,14521,14519,2883],"class_list":["post-24997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-air-travel","tag-aviation","tag-ben-gurion","tag-brussels","tag-brussels-airlines","tag-flights-tel-aviv-belgium","tag-tel-aviv","tag-zaventem"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116843753377516072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}