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Full list of airlines: Iberia Express, Air Europa are suspending in the Tel Aviv route, What you need to know?

Spanish airlines Iberia and Air Europa cancelled upcoming flights to Israel Saturday, joining a fast-growing list of carriers to suspend the route or cancel some flights.


Full list of airlines: Iberia Express, Air Europa are suspending in the Tel Aviv route, What you need to know?
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Spanish airlines Iberia and Air Europa cancelled upcoming flights to Israel Saturday, joining a fast-growing list of carriers to suspend the route or cancel some flights.

Israel remains braced for a large-scale attack by Iran and Hezbollah, amid fears of an escalating regional conflict.

Iberia Express cancelled flights to and from Tel Aviv until Monday.

The cancellations have left some 100,000 Israelis stranded abroad, a media reported, citing sources in the aviation industry.

According to the report, people stuck overseas are advised to travel to Greece or Cyprus and catch a flight from there back to Israel.

National carrier El Al has not seen any disruptions to its schedule. The media news reported Saturday night that it was adding five flights to help bring home Israelis stranded overseas.

The Foreign Ministry on Saturday published an online form to help provide assistance to the tens of thousands of Israelis stuck abroad with no way home due to the cancellations.

As of Saturday, at least 18 airlines have canceled flights to and from Israel, as Hezbollah and Iran have threatened to attack following the killings of top terror leaders.

A digital channel said later Saturday that Ethiopian Airlines has also cancelled its Tel Aviv flights.

Meanwhile, the United States embassy in Lebanon on Saturday urged its citizens to depart Lebanon to book any ticket available to them, even if that flight does not depart immediately or does not follow their first-choice route.

The embassy added that citizens who choose to stay in Lebanon should arrange shelter in case of an emergency.

Air France and its low-cost Dutch affiliate Transavia said on Saturday that they were further extending their suspensions of flights between Paris and Beirut until at least August 6.

Flights to Tel Aviv will continue as usual, a spokesman told anther news agency.

Some of the foreign airlines are delaying or downsizing some of their flights to Israel for internal reasons said the ministry.

Passengers must take into account that their return will be delayed.

Some airlines have also made sure to stay out of Iranian airspace since the assassination.

Flights were said to resume Saturday morning.

The ministry added that filling out the form does not guarantee a flight back or any kind of funding.

Though Israeli airlines have continued flying, Arkia saw some cancellations of flights operated by foreign crews.

One such cancellation left some 400 Israelis stranded in Prague for three days until being flown home on Friday.

He said Israel would know when to close its airspace for safety reasons should the need arise.

Many non-Israeli airlines stopped flights to and from Israel after the Gaza war broke out on October 7.

Most resumed after several months, though Israeli airspace was briefly closed in April when Iran launched an unprecedented direct strike on Israel.

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