British Airways will reduce flights to the Middle East and use the freed-up planes to offer more direct services to Asia and Africa. The airline will not resume services to the Gulf until at least July, when it will offer significantly reduced flights to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv, it said on Thursday. It will drop Jeddah in Saudi Arabia as a destination and will reduce services to Riyadh from mid-May. BA is a sister airline of Aer Lingus, which would feed some passengers into these services out of Heathrow. Virgin Atlantic, which briefly restarted Dubai and Riyadh services within days of the conflict beginning, has also cancelled its services into Riyadh for the foreseeable future.

Source: The Irish Times April 09, 2026 21:49 UTC