THE Iran crisis is continuing to affect travel with airlines having to stop flights to the Middle East.
British Airways is scheduled to start flying back to the likes of Dubai and Doha in July – but has announced it will drop one service completely.
BA will drop its service from London Heathrow to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia 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 Riyadh 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 Doha, Tel Aviv and Riyadh will drop from two flights to just one a day.
Flights to the city of Larnaca in Cyprus are scheduled to resume on May 22.
Meanwhile, services to Bahrain 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 review 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 India and Kenya.
It will begin daily flights to Bengaluru in India and Nairobi in Africa during the summer season until late October.
It will operate a third daily service from London Heathrow to Delhi until May 31.
The airline will add its third daily flight from London Heathrow to Mumbai from May 15 to 31.
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