Flydubai cuts Europe flights amid Middle East tensions
Flydubai has updated its operations for April amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, with the carrier set to temporarily suspend services to Ljubljana and reduce frequencies to Belgrade, Zagreb and Sarajevo.
The airline has cancelled all flights to Ljubljana for the remainder of March and throughout April, with services due to resume on May 1, although further adjustments for the upcoming summer season remain possible.
Last April, the airline maintained four weekly flights to the Slovenian capital and had planned to increase this to five weekly services next month prior to the latest network revision.
The carrier will reduce flights to Belgrade to three weekly this April, down from the originally scheduled daily service, CE Report informs via the Ex-Yu Aviation portal.
This represents a significant decrease compared to last year’s fourteen weekly rotations, as well as the seventeen weekly flights that had been planned prior to the outbreak of the conflict. In Zagreb, Flydubai will also reduce frequencies to three weekly, with the exception of the post-Easter week when four weekly services will be maintained.
The airline had initially planned seven weekly flights for April, while last year it operated six weekly rotations.
Sarajevo will likewise be affected, with the carrier set to operate two weekly flights next month, down from both the planned schedule and last year’s three weekly services.
On the other hand, Qatar Airways has extended the suspension of its services to Belgrade and Zagreb until mid-June, from the initially planned May 1 resumption date.
However, EX-YU Aviation News has been told by the airline that a number of destinations have been shifted to a mid-June restart, and services may resume earlier than currently scheduled at short notice, as the carrier continues to review its network on a week-by-week basis.
Unlike some of its Gulf neighbours, Qatar has not been subject to attacks for over a week and has resumed in-person work across both the public and private sectors, as well as in schools.
Photo: Ex-Yu Aviation portal
