Air France plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut on Tuesday

Suspended since Sunday, Air France and Transavia flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut are expected to resume “as of Tuesday”the airline announced on Monday, August 26 in a statement sent to AFP. “At this stage, and subject to the evolution of the security situation at the destination, the company plans to resume its connections between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Beirut (Lebanon), and between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Tel-Aviv (Israel)”, she specifies.

The links had been suspended due to heightened tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The Israeli military claimed to have foiled a large-scale Hezbollah attack with multiple strikes in Lebanon, but the Lebanese movement said it had managed to launch hundreds of drones and rockets at Israeli positions to avenge the death of one of its leaders.

Since Covid, Air France usually operated one connection per day to these destinations. It had interrupted flights between Paris and Beirut from July 29 to August 15, but had not recently suspended connections with Tel Aviv. The suspension of flights until at least Monday “also applies to Transavia”the low-cost subsidiary of the group, said the Air France representative.