The world’s biggest airline group, Lufthansa Group, will party resume its flights to Israel as of 1 August 2025. Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, and Brussels Airlines will be the first to reintroduce a regular flight schedule.
Since 4 May 2025, Lufthansa Group had suspended all flights to Israel due to a missile strike by the Houthi in Yemen which hit the Ben Gurion airport surroundings. Israel’s attack against Iran in mid-June once again delayed any possible reintroduction but the group has now shared flights will gradually take off again from 1 August 2025.
Although the Lufthansa Group comprises a multitude of airlines such as Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, and Eurowings, only three are currently scheduled to start flying to Israel again.
Starting from 1 August, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines will resume flights from Frankfurt, Munich, and Vienna to Tel Aviv. From 13 August onwards, Brussels Airlines will resume flights from Brussels to Tel Aviv. The flight schedule shows 44 weekly flights to and from Israel operated by airlines of the Lufthansa Group.
“Following a thorough security assessment, Lufthansa Group airlines will resume flights to Tel Aviv from 1 August. Safety remains our highest priority. We continue to closely monitor the situation in the region and may adjust our flight schedule if necessary,” Brussels Airlines said in a statement.
However, Eurowings and Swiss won’t yet be resuming their flights to Israel. Eurowings, which normally operates flights between Tel Aviv and Hamburg and Düsseldorf, has extended the suspension of its flights until 25 October 2025. Initially, Swiss (operating beweten Zurich and Tel Aviv) had also suspended it flights until the end of October. The airline now plans to resume its flights to Israel at the end of September, although details have not yet been released.
Other airlines return to Israel
Recently, United Airlines already announced it would be resuming its flight schedule to Israel from its Newark hub to Tel Aviv. Two daily flights have been scheduled and the airline is thereby the first U.S. carrier to resume the transatlantic route. From 1 September 2025 onwards, Delta Air Lines is set to resume flying between New York to Tel Aviv.
Budget airline Wizz Air also announced to return to full-capacity in Israel by September, while the first flights will resume on August 8.
Hi, there. Flights to Tel Aviv (TLV) will resume on July 21, 2025. The first flight from Newark (EWR) to Tel Aviv (UA84) will operate on this date, with the return flight from Tel Aviv to Newark (UA85) starting on July 22, 2025. Following this, there will be twice-daily nonstop… https://t.co/Y6hG6u2Kjj
— United Airlines (@united) July 24, 2025
“Operations are totally safe and secured right now. The situation can change, and it has changed a few times before, but we have a very robust system to monitor this from a safety and security perspective,” Chief Executive Jozsef Varadi told Reuters in an interview.
As Ryanair is only scheduled to return to Israel on 25 October and easyJet has suspended its flights to the region until March 2026, Wizz Air is very likely to be the first of the budget trio to retake its market share in Israel.
