All UK airlines have now suspended flights to and from Israel. Wizz Air and easyJet “paused” operations serving Tel Aviv shortly after the Hamas assault on Israel began. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic continued to fly from London Heathrow to Ben Gurion international airport up to 11 October. Both airlines have now suspended the route.
Virgin Atlantic operated a round-trip on 11 October. But on the same day a British Airways jet diverted safely back to Heathrow shortly before the planned touchdown in Tel Aviv – a 5,000-mile “flight to nowhere”.
