2024-07-29 12:02:21
Lufthansa and Air France announced on Monday they would suspend flights to Beirut due to concerns about military conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
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Lufthansa and Air France announced on Monday, July 29, that they would suspend flights to Beirut due to concerns about a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lufthansa normally offers scheduled flights to Lebanon in cooperation with these three companies only via Beirut Airport.
An Air France-KLM spokesman immediately said that Air France and Transavia France would suspend flights to Beirut on Monday and Tuesday “due to the security situation at the destination.”
“Due to the security situation at the destination, flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Beirut will be suspended from July 29 to 30, 2024” and “this decision also applies to Transavia France”. Source.
“We will notify the affected customers individually and offer them a deferral or refund solution,” the spokesperson said.
The same source said, “Air France recalls that the safety of its passengers and crew is its absolute priority. The company constantly monitors the evolution of the geopolitical situation in the areas served and overfly by its aircraft to ensure the highest levels of safety and security in flights.”
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Israel pledged on Sunday to respond “with force” to an attack it blamed on Lebanon’s Hezbollah that killed 12 young men playing on a soccer field in the annexed Syrian Golan Heights on Saturday.
Israel’s security cabinet authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant to “decide how and when to deal with the Hezbollah terrorist organization.”
The Israeli prime minister on Monday visited Majdal Shams, a town in the Syrian Golan Heights that was mostly annexed by Israel.
The rocket was fired from Lebanon by the Iran-backed Islamist movement Hezbollah, according to the Israeli military. It crashed into a soccer field where many young people were present. The 12 dead were aged between 10 and 16, and dozens of other young people were injured, according to local authorities.
The incident has reignited concerns that the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, sparked by an October 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement, could spread to Lebanon.
Other companies are taking action
Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines said in a press release that it had rescheduled some flights for Sunday and Monday, citing “technical reasons related to insurance risk allocation.”
Since the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out in October, there has been constant cross-border fighting between the Israeli army and Hezbollah.
Many European and U.S. airlines suspended flights to Israel at the start of the conflict, before gradually resuming them.
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