Air France-KLM, parent company of the two companies, cites the safety of its customers and crews, while the front of the war in Gaza has moved towards Lebanon.
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Air France and Transavia flights to Beirut and Tel Aviv from Paris are suspended at least until October 8 inclusive “due to the security situation at destination”announced the Air France-KLM group on Monday September 30. Connections with the Lebanese capital have already been suspended since September 18 and those with Tel Aviv were relaunched on the 21st, after a three-day interruption.
A possible recovery “will remain subject to an assessment of the situation on site”specifies the press release written by the parent company of the two companies. “Concerned customers will be notified individually and postponement or refund solutions will be offered to them”underlined the Air France-KLM group. This reminds us that “the safety of its customers and crews is its top priority”.
The suspension of flights by Air France and its low-cost subsidiary began after the simultaneous explosion across Lebanon of pagers used by members of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah on September 17, an operation that the pro-Iranian group attributed to Israel. Like the Air France-KLM group, its German competitor Lufthansa has suspended its airlines’ routes due to the situation in the Middle East: Tel Aviv and Tehran until October 14 inclusive, and Beirut until the 26th.
After a year of exchanges of fire at the border, on the sidelines of the war in the Gaza Strip, Israel has moved the heart of its military operations to the north since mid-September, in order to weaken Hezbollah and allow the return of tens of thousands of residents displaced by incessant rocket fire. Lebanese side, pNearly a million people may have been displaced by Israeli strikes, said Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.