Factbox-Airlines suspend flights as Middle East tensions rise

(Reuters) -Concerns over a wider conflict in the Middle East have prompted international airlines to suspend flights to the region or to avoid affected air space.

Below are some of the airlines that have adjusted services to and from the region:

AIR ALGERIE

The Algerian airline temporarily suspended flights to and from Lebanon until further notice.

AIR INDIA

The Indian flag carrier suspended scheduled flights to and from Tel Aviv until further notice.

AIR FRANCE-KLM

Air France has extended its suspension of flights between Paris and Beirut until Aug. 11.

Its Dutch arm KLM, from early in August, cancelled all its flights to and from Tel Aviv until Oct. 26.

DELTA AIR LINES

The carrier has extended a suspension of flights between New York and Tel Aviv until Aug. 31.

EASYJET

The UK budget airline stopped flying to and from Tel Aviv in April and will resume flights on March 30, 2025, a spokesperson said.

ITA AIRWAYS

Italy's ITA Airways has extended the suspension of its flights to and from Tel Aviv through Aug. 10.

LUFTHANSA

The German airline has extended its avoidance of Iranian and Iraqi airspace and said it would suspend flights to and from Tel Aviv, Tehran, Beirut, Amman and the Iraqi city of Erbil through Aug. 13.

Swiss Air Lines, a unit of Lufthansa Group, extended the suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv and Beirut until Aug. 13, avoiding airspace over Israel, Iran and Iraq until then.

ROYAL JORDANIAN

Jordan's flag carrier will suspend its flights to and from the Lebanese capital Beirut until Aug. 10. They had been suspended since July 29.

RYANAIR

Europe's biggest budget airline cancelled flights to and from Tel Aviv until Aug. 23.

SINGAPORE AIRLINES

The airline stopped flying over Iranian airspace and is using alternative routes.

UNITED AIRLINES

The Chicago-based airline suspended its flights to Tel Aviv for the foreseeable future. United Airlines had suspended its daily Newark, New Jersey-Tel Aviv service on July 31, citing security reasons.

LEBANESE AIRSPACE ALERTS

Britain advised UK airlines not to enter Lebanese airspace from Aug. 8 until Nov. 4 citing "potential risk to aviation from military activity."

(Reporting by Reuters bureaus; Compiled by Tiago Brandao, Charlotte Bawol and Alejandra Rosales; Editing by Bernadette Baum and David Holmes)