Lufthansa Group Airlines has announced that it will resume flights to Tel Aviv, Israel, starting from January 8, 2024.

• Lufthansa Group Airlines has announced the resumption of flights to Tel Aviv starting January 8, 2024, following the Israel-Hamas war disruption.
• The company plans to initially offer 20 weekly connections to Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, and Zurich, representing around 30 per cent of the regular flight schedule.
• Flights can now be scheduled, as confirmed by the company.

Through a statement, Lufthansa Group has declared that it will initially offer four weeks departures from Tel Aviv to the German city of Frankfurt and three weekly flights to Munich, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

In addition, the company announced that Austrian Airlines is planning eight weekly connections to Vienna, while SWISS will offer five weekly flights departing from Tel Aviv to Zurich.

As a first step, Lufthansa Group airlines will offer a total of 20 weekly connections to and from Tel Aviv. This corresponds to around 30 per cent of the regular flight schedule. For these services, the carriers will operate aircraft from the Airbus A320 family.

The company has considered that this flight schedule offers good transfer connections from Israel to North America and back through the Lufthansa Group hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich and Vienna.

The flight schedule was published on December 18, and flights can be booked from that date onward.

Safety is always a top priority for the airlines in the Lufthansa Group. The Lufthansa Group continues to monitor the security situation in Israel closely and is in close contact with the local and international authorities. Possible flight schedule adjustments must be expected due to changing conditions.

Due to the Israel-Hamas war, Lufthansa Group announced that it would not operate flights to and from Tel Aviv until November 30 at the earliest. However, such a measure was extended following the situation in the Middle East.

According to a report from CNN, two days before the attack, on October 5, a total of 63 airlines were serving Tel Aviv with 256 flights to the airport. Israel’s flag carrier, El Al, accounted for nearly 26 per cent of those flights, while Lufthansa had five flights a day to Tel Aviv back then, or two per cent of the total.

However, unlike Lufthansa Group, United States Airlines Delta recently announced that it would cancel additional flights between the US and Tel Aviv as a result of the current situation.

Besides, Delta announced that flights between Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) will be cancelled until March 29 2024.

Through a statement, Delta announced that sales of these flights are suspended.

Due to the situation in the Middle East, the European Union’s Home Affairs Commissioner, Ylva Johannson, warned that Europe might expect a huge risk of terrorist attacks during Christmas Holidays as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.

As a result of the Israel-Hamas war, several European governments reintroduced temporary border controls.