Update, 1/22/25: Several large Israeli news media sites are reporting that Delta has started selling tickets to Israel as of April 1st and will return then.
Those reports are fake news. Delta has always been selling flights from April 1st, but will not confirm they will actually return then. Nothing has changed on that front.
With most European airlines confirming return dates, we reached out to North American carriers to see if they had any comment on their return dates. Here is what the North American airlines told us:
American: “American continuously evaluates its network and we have nothing new to share at this time regarding Tel Aviv service.”
Air Canada: No reponse.
Delta: “At the moment, we don’t have an update to share. We’re monitoring the evolving security environment and assessing our operations based on security guidance and intelligence reports.”
United: “Our flights to Tel Aviv remain suspended at this time.”
American is unique in that it won’t even sell tickets to Israel on partner airlines that have confirmed they will return to Israel.
Ted Cruz predicted to Bari Weiss that US airlines will return to Israel within 30 days of President Trump’s inauguration. That seems quite unlikely to me.
Update, 1/21/25: Air France confirms with DansDeals that they plan to resume Paris/CDG-Tel Aviv flights on January 25th and that subsidiary Transavia France plans to resume Paris/ORY-Tel Aviv flights on January 28th:
“Air France plans to resume its services between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Tel Aviv from January 25th, 2025, with initially 5 weekly flights. The company will gradually resume its usual flight schedule with 7 flights a week to this destination, operated by Airbus A350-900. This resumption and the continuation of operations will remain subject to a regular assessment of the situation on site.
Air France reiterates that the safety of its customers and crews is its top priority. The company is constantly monitoring the geopolitical situation in the areas served and flown over by its aircraft, to ensure the highest level of flight safety.
Transavia France, the low-cost subsidiary of the Air France-KLM plans to resume its services between Paris-Orly and Tel Aviv on January 28, 2025, with initially 3 weekly flights. The airline will then progressively increase its frequencies, to reach up to 7 weekly flights.”
Update, 1/20/25: British Airways confirms with DansDeals that they plan to return to Tel Aviv on April 5th. EasyJet confirms that they plan to return to Tel Aviv on June 1st. Dates and routes have been updated below.
Update, 1/16/25: Lufthansa Group has confirmed that Austrian, Brussels, Eurowings, Lufthansa, and Swiss will resume flights to Tel Aviv on February 1st.
Update, 1/14/25: Air France, British Airways, and other airlines have pushed back their return dates. ITA confirmed they will return to Tel Aviv on February 1st. WizzAir resumes services tomorrow from most destinations. Dates and routes have been updated below.
Update, 1/2/25: Air France and other airlines have pushed back their return dates. Air Bulgaria has resumed service, and WizzAir has confirmed they will return to more than a dozen destinations on January 15th. Dates and routes have been updated below.
Previous updates can be found at the end of this post.
Originally posted on 9/29/24:
Following the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s recommendation that airlines suspend service to Israel and Lebanon until 10/31, many airlines have suspended their flights to Israel. I’d expect more suspensions to match these recommendations.
Below is a roundup of more than 40 airlines’ flight status for Israel, including the next available flight for booking, as of 10am ET on 1/20.
Note that earlier flights may be operational but aren’t currently available for purchase, check with your airline for the latest status.
- AA: JFK-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- Aegean: Most flights operational.
- Air Baltic: Riga-Tel Aviv flights operational on 3/2. All flights through 3/1 are confirmed as canceled.
- Air Canada: Toronto-Tel Aviv on 5/1. Montreal-Tel Aviv on 5/2. All flights through 4/30/25 are confirmed as canceled.
- Air Europa: Madrid-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Air France: Paris-Tel Aviv on 1/25. All flights through 1/24 are confirmed as canceled.
- Air India: Delhi-Tel Aviv on 3/2. All flights through 3/1 are confirmed as canceled.
- Air Serbia: Belgrade-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- Arkia: Flights operational, new route between JFK-Tel Aviv starts 2/8.
- Austrian: Vienna-Tel Aviv on 2/1. All flights through 1/31 are confirmed as canceled.
- Azerbaijan: Baku-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- BA: London-Tel Aviv on 4/5. All flights through 4/4 are confirmed as canceled.
- Bluebird: Most flights operational.
- Brussels: Brussels-Tel Aviv on 2/2. All flights through 2/1 are confirmed as canceled.
- Bulgaria Air: Sofia-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Cathay Pacific: Hong Kong-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely.
- Cyprus Airways: Larnaca-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Delta: JFK-Tel Aviv on 4/1. Boston and Atlanta to Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights through 3/31 are confirmed as canceled.
- EasyJet: Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, Geneva, London, Milan, and Nice to Tel Aviv on 6/1. All flights through 5/31 are confirmed as canceled.
- El Al: Flights operational.
- Emirates: Dubai-Tel Aviv on 10/1. All flights through 9/30 are confirmed as canceled.
- Etihad: Abu Dhabi-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Ethiopian: Addis Ababa-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Eurowings: Düsseldorf-Tel Aviv on 2/2. All flights through 2/1 are confirmed as canceled.
- Finnair: Helsinki-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- FlyDubai: Dubai-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Hainan: Shenzhen-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- HiSky: Flights operational.
- Iberia: Madrid-Tel Aviv on 3/30. All flights through 3/29 are confirmed as canceled.
- ITA: Rome-Tel Aviv on 2/1. All flights through 1/31 are confirmed as canceled.
- Icelandair: Reykjavik-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- Israir: Flights operational.
- KLM: Amsterdam-Tel Aviv on 3/30/25. All flights through 3/29 are confirmed as canceled.
- LOT Polish: Warsaw-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Lufthansa: Frankfurt and Munich-Tel Aviv on 2/1/25. All flights through 1/31 are confirmed as canceled.
- Royal Jordanian: Amman-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- RyanAir: All flights suspended through 3/30/25. All flights through 3/30 are confirmed as canceled.
- Smartwings: Flights operational.
- Swiss: Zurich-Tel Aviv on 2/1. All flights through 1/31 are confirmed as canceled.
- TAP: Lisbon-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- Tarom: Bucharest-Tel Aviv flights operational.
- Transavia: Paris-Tel Aviv on 1/28. All flights through 1/27 are confirmed as canceled.
- Turkish: Istanbul-Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- Tus Air: Flights operational.
- United: Chicago, Newark, San Francisco, and Washington DC to Tel Aviv suspended indefinitely. All flights are confirmed as canceled.
- Virgin Atlantic: London-Tel Aviv on 10/26/25. All flights through 10/25/25 are confirmed as canceled.
- Vueling: Barcelona-Tel Aviv on 4/2/25. All flights through 3/29/25 are confirmed as canceled.
- Wizz Air: Abu Dhabi, Athens, Bucharest, Budapest, Krakow, London/LTN, Milan, Rome, Sofia, Varna, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw to Tel Aviv flights operational.
Previous post updates:
Update, 12/22/24: Air Canada, Air France, ITA, and Vueling have pushed back their return dates. LOT, Aegean, Air Europa, and WizzAir have resumed flying to Tel Aviv. Dates have been updated below.
Update, 12/8: Air Baltic has pushed back their return to Israel to 2/2, dates have been updated below.
Update, 12/2: Lufthansa Group airlines have pushed back their return to 2/1, dates have been updated below.
Update, 12/1: Azerbaijan has now resumed Baku-Tel Aviv flights. Aegean, Air Europa, and WizzAir have all confirmed they will return to Tel Aviv later this month, dates have been updated below.
Air India, Iberia, LOT, and Transavia have pushed back their returns to Israel, with dates updated below.
Etihad increased from 7 weekly flights to 10 weekly round-trip flights between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv last month. That will now increase to 12 flights this week, 18 weekly flights starting on 12/15, and 19 weekly flights starting on 12/22!
Update, 11/18: Air France, LOT, AirBaltic, Eurowings, and Vueling have pushed back their returns to Israel, with dates updated below.
Update, 11/11: Lufthansa Group’s affiliated airlines won’t operate to Tel Aviv until at least 12/16 and Lufthansa Airlines won’t operate to Tel Aviv until at least 1/1/25.
Update, 11/10: Virgin Atlantic has pushed back its return to Israel from 3/31/25 to 10/26/25. The airline will be in touch with passengers this week to reschedule bookings. Virgin hasn’t flown to Tel Aviv since 10/6/23.
ITA has canceled flights to Israel through 1/12/25.
HT: tavster, via DDF
Update, 11/7: Air France has now canceled flights through 11/26, and the next available flight for purchase is 12/4. Expect this to be extended further.
Update, 11/7: Air Europa 1301 was en-route from Madrid to Tel Aviv when a rocket hit the grounds of Ben Gurion Airport yesterday. The flight diverted to Rome and returned to Madrid over 8 hours after it departed the airport. The airline won’t return to Israel until 12/1 at the earliest. Air Europa had been one of the few European airlines flying to Israel this month.
Iberia has also pushed back their return to Israel from 12/1/24 to 2/1/25.
Update, 11/4: Air France and LOT have pushed back their next available flights to Israel. Dates have been updated below.
Update, 11/3: We reached out to American yesterday and the airline has now provided this statement to DansDeals regarding stopping sales of flights to Israel,
“American has suspended operations to and from Tel Aviv. To provide customers with certainty when planning travel to Tel Aviv, we are expanding our travel alert to allow customers whose travel plans are impacted to rebook their itinerary for travel involving a partner airline or cancel for a refund.”
The airline last flew to Israel on 10/6/23.
American’s and United’s flights to Israel are now suspended indefinitely. Air Canada and Delta plan on returning to Israel on April 1st, 2025, meaning that El Al will continue to be the sole operator of nonstop commercial flights between North America and Israel for the foreseeable future.
Update, 11/3: American and Emirates have stopped selling flights to Tel Aviv. We have reached out to both airlines for comment and will update this post if they respond. KLM, LOT, and more airlines have pushed back their planned return flights to Israel. Dates have been updated below.
Update, 10/28: Air France, Lufthansa Group, Aegean, and more airlines have pushed back their planned return flights to Israel. Dates have been updated below.
Update, 10/21: BA, Lufthansa Group, and more airlines have pushed back their planned return flights to Israel. Dates have been updated below.
BA provided this statement to DansDeals:
“We’ve suspended our flights to Tel Aviv out to the end of March next year.
This will give greater certainty to our customers who we’re contacting to advise them of their options, including a full refund.”
BA has been very good about rebooking passengers onto El Al, when flights are available.
In response, Israir announced plans to fly 4-5 weekly flights between London/LTN and Tel Aviv starting 11/17 and Arkia is now flying twice weekly between Manchester and Tel Aviv.
Update, 10/16: Delta, ITA, Iberia, Wizz Air, and more airlines have pushed back their planned return flights to Israel. Dates have been updated below.
Update, 10/10: The EASA has revised its EU airline guidance against any flights into Israel to recommend strict monitoring and risk assessment to fly into Israel. After the announcement, Air Europa confirmed they will return to Israel on 10/21. Other dates have been updated below.
El Al has added additional flights between JFK and Tel Aviv through the end of the year.
HT: chff and LongTimeLurker
Update, 10/1 at 2pm: Israeli airspace has reopened to civil aviation after closing due to a massive missile attack from Iran. El Al flight operations are resuming, with some changes to the flight schedule, though no cancellations are expected.
Expect foreign carriers to extend their service suspensions.
Let’s all pray for the safety of Israel and her inhabitants, along with a return of the hostages, and a speedy victory against Iran and all of its terror proxies. May we experience true peace in the holy land and around the world very soon!
Update, 10/1 at 9am: Etihad and Tus flights have resumed. LOT extends its suspension through 10/20. Lufthansa Group and Air Baltic extended their suspension through 10/31. KLM extended its suspension through 12/31. Virgin Atlantic extended its suspension through 3/30/25. The post has been updated below.
HT: chff
Update, 9/30: The flight cancelation status has been added next to most airlines in the post below.
- Air France confirms to DansDeals that flights to Israel are suspended through 10/8, “The operations will resume on the basis of an assessment of the situation on the ground. Impacted customers will be notified individually and offered solutions for postponement or refund. Air France reminds that the safety of its customers and crews is its absolute imperative. The company is constantly monitoring developments in the geopolitical situation of the territories served and overflown by its aircraft, to ensure the highest level of flight safety and security.”
- French media and i24 also report this suspension through 10/8 applies to Transavia.
- Bulgaria Air has also suspended service through 10/8.
Were your travel plans canceled? How did you rebook?
