American Airlines, Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates, Ryanair, and Aegean Airlines were among those pulling flights from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.
However, airport authorities did not suspend commercial air connectivity to Eilat, Israel’s second international airport and a popular Red Sea vacation destination.
“Given the current security situation in Tel Aviv,” a Lufthansa official told AFP, “the German carrier is canceling all flights to and from Tel Aviv until and including Monday.”
The airline was “monitoring the security situation in Israel,” he added.
Brussels Airline, part of the Lufthansa group, also cancelled its Tel Aviv flights.
Air France said it had halted Tel Aviv flights “until further notice”.
“Commercial measures are in place, allowing customers to postpone or cancel their trip free of charge”, an Air France spokesman said.
Air France-KLM group’s low-cost carrier Transavia announced it was cancelling all flights from Paris and Lyon to Tel Aviv up to and including Monday.
Spanish airline Iberia announced that its budget subsidiary Iberia Express was cancelling its Tel Aviv flights.
Italy’s flag carrier ITA Airways cancelled its flight until Sunday morning at the earliest “to protect the safety of passengers and crew”.
Spanish airline Iberia announced that its budget subsidiary Iberia Express was cancelling its Tel Aviv flights.
In Warsaw, Polish carrier LOT said it had cancelled its flights from the Polish capital on Saturday.
