More
EN
Newsletter
More
Newsletter
EN
Support JNS
News   Israel News

Foreign airlines cancel flights to Israel

Wizz Air, British Airways and Azerbaijan Airlines canceled flights on Tuesday.

Sep. 24, 2024
Wizz Air
A Wizz Air flight prepares to take off from Ben-Gurion International Airport, Sept. 3, 2014. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.
( Sep. 24, 2024 / JNS )

Foreign airlines are continuing to suspend flights to and from Ben-Gurion Airport amid the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Wizz Air, British Airways and Azerbaijan Airlines canceled flights on Tuesday.

The Lufthansa Group, which includes Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings, announced on Monday that it was extending its suspension of flights to Ben-Gurion Airport until Oct. 14.

Business and Economy Defense and Security
EXPLORE JNS
Israeli President Isaac Herzog with Laura Fernández Delgado of Costa Rica at her presidential inauguration on May 8, 2026. Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.
World News
Costa Rica’s new president wants to open its embassy in Jerusalem
The move would reverse a decision by the Central American nation two decades ago to move its Israeli embassy to Tel Aviv.
May. 11, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar speaks at the Muni Expo 2025 conference in Tel Aviv on July 15, 2025. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Israel News
European sanctions on Israelis won’t succeed in pressuring Jewish state, Sa’ar says
Israel’s top diplomat said that it is “outrageous” to draw a moral equivalence between Hamas leaders and Israeli citizens.
May. 11, 2026
JNS Staff
Trump Xi Jinping China
World News
Trump expected to ‘pressure’ Xi on Iran during talks in Beijing
The U.S. administration expects “conversation to continue” on Chinese revenue and dual-use exports benefiting Tehran, a senior U.S. official said before meetings in China.
May. 11, 2026
Mike Wagenheim
Josh Gottheimer
U.S. News
‘Too many’ Dems ‘noticeably, shamefully silent’ about Jew-hatred on far left, Gottheimer writes
“It’s a glaring double standard,” the New Jersey Democratic congressman, who is Jewish, wrote in the “New York Times.”
May. 11, 2026
Satellite image of a world map. Credit: Pixabay.
U.S. News
Trump admin sanctions three Chinese firms providing satellite imagery of US assets to Iran
“The targeting of U.S. service members and partners will not go unanswered,” the U.S. State Department said.
May. 11, 2026
Mike Wagenheim
Los Angeles County Sheriff Getty
U.S. News
Some hate crimes are clear, others require further investigation, say LA area detectives who work on bias cases
One of six detectives to be awarded by the ADL told JNS of New York City’s recent changes to hate crime reports that “you can’t have, ‘Ok, this is a robbery and this is a ‘reported’ robbery.”
May. 11, 2026
Aaron Bandler
Vehicles drive past a billboard in Beirut depicting Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun with the words "the choice is for Lebanon" on April 24, 2026. Israel and Lebanon extended their shaky ceasefire by three weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump said, as the United States remained at a standstill in negotiations with Iran to end the war in the Middle East. Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images.
JNS TV / Straight Up
The growing divide over Iran redefining Western politics
May. 11, 2026
Daniel Seaman
THE COLUMN
Stephen M. Flatow. Credit: Courtesy.
Column
America gave Jews freedom of faith
Stephen M. Flatow
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Column: GLOBAL FOCUS
Gaza, again?
Ben Cohen