THE Iran crisis is continuing to affect travel with airlines having to stop flights to the Middle East.
is scheduled to start flying back to the likes of and Doha in July – but has announced it will drop one service completely.
BA is axing its route from Jeddah permanentlyCredit: Alamy
Flights are set to restart in Dubai on July 1, 2026Credit: Alamy
BA will drop its service from to Jeddah in permanently from April 24, 2026.
The airline had been operating a four flights a week service since November 2024.
But a shift in demand, due to the conflict in the Middle East, has led to the airline terminating the service.
However, British Airways is set to resume flying to the Middle East next month with flights to restarting in mid-May.
It is also scheduled to start flying to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv on July 1 at the earliest.
But these services will be reduced from what they were before the conflict began.
Flights to Dubai will go from three each day to one daily flight while services to , Tel Aviv and Riyadh will drop from two flights to just one a day.
Flights to the city of in Cyprus are scheduled to resume on May 22.
Meanwhile, services to and the city of Amman in Jordan, are paused until October 25.
British Airways said: “Due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East, we have made further changes to our flying schedule to provide greater clarity for our customers.
“We’re keeping the situation under constant and are directly in touch with affected customers to offer them a range of options.”
Due to its reduced flight schedule, BA has said it will use its freed up aircraft to head to other destinations like and .
It will begin daily flights to Bengaluru in India and Nairobi in Africa during the season until late October.
It will operate a third daily service from to Delhi until May 31.
The airline will add its third daily flight from London Heathrow to from May 15 to 31.
Here’s more on another .
And one domestic airline has .
British Airways is changing its schedule to destinations in the Middle EastCredit: Alamy
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