{"id":65607,"date":"2026-08-15T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/65607\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:37:18","slug":"dubai-and-middle-east-flight-disruption-international-airlines-extend-suspensions-amid-political-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/65607\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai and Middle East flight disruption: international airlines extend suspensions amid political uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathay Pacific: Hong Kong-based carrier Cathay Pacific has cancelled all flights to and from Dubai and Riyadh until 25 October and 26 October, respectively. Customers booked to travel up until 1 September may rebook, reroute or refund their tickets as per the airline&#8217;s ticket waiver policy. \u201cWe are monitoring the situation closely and will remain agile in our response. The safety of our customers and people guides every decision we make,\u201d the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Finn Air: Finland&#8217;s national carrier, Finn Air, has suspended flights between Dubai and Helsinki until 24 October. Its flights to Doha have also been suspended until the winter season, with no resumption date provided.<\/p>\n<p>ITA Airways: Flights to Dubai have been suspended until 24 October, while the airline&#8217;s service to Riyadh is not operating until 15 September.<\/p>\n<p>KLM: Dutch airline KLM has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntravellerme.com\/story\/dubai-and-middle-east-flight-disruption-the-latest-as-airlines-resume-limited-number-of-flights\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cancelled all flights<\/a> to and from Dubai, Riyadh and Dammam up until 25 October. In a recent <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/news.klm.com\/statement-situation-middle-east\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/news.klm.com\/statement-situation-middle-east\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/news.klm.com\/statement-situation-middle-east\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>, the airline said: \u201cKLM is currently not flying through the airspace of Iran, Iraq, and Israel, nor over several countries in the Gulf region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Korean Air: Korean Air has suspended its route from Incheon International Airport to Dubai until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines: Japan Airlines has cancelled its Tokyo to Doha and Doha to Tokyo flights until \u201cit is confirmed that sufficient safety measures are ensured under the current situation in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa: German carrier Lufthansa is \u2060suspending \u2060all flights to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dammam, Riyadh, Erbil, Muscat and Tehran until 24 October. Its Dubai route is on pause until at least 13 September.<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian: In a statement on <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.norwegian.com\/en\/flight-status\/customer-care-update-page\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.norwegian.com\/en\/flight-status\/customer-care-update-page\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.norwegian.com\/en\/flight-status\/customer-care-update-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its website<\/a>, budget carrier Norwegian&#8217;s seasonal route to Dubai ended on Wednesday, 8 April; there will be no new flights to Dubai until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Pegasus: Turkish budget airline Pegasus continues to suspend all flights to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Dammam, Doha, Dubai, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Riyadh and Sharjah.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine Airlines: Philippine Airlines has suspended flights from Manila to Dubai until 2 October. The airline has, however, resumed flights to Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Atlantic: British carrier Virgin Atlantic has suspended its service from London to Dubai for the rest of the winter. With the seasonal route meant to be running until Saturday, March 28, the airline put out a statement on Sunday, 8 March, saying: \u201cThe recent escalation in the Middle East has brought forward the end of our operation for this season.\u201d Those with tickets for Virgin flights are advised to contact the airline, as their teams are \u201cactively working to support those who still need to travel, including exploring and securing arrangements with other airlines wherever possible\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cathay Pacific: Hong Kong-based carrier Cathay Pacific has cancelled all flights to and from Dubai and Riyadh until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13058],"tags":[739,1984],"class_list":["post-65607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-air-france","tag-air-france","tag-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}