{"id":473542,"date":"2026-03-13T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473542\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:20:09","slug":"all-the-birmingham-airport-flights-cancelled-today-friday-march-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473542\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Birmingham Airport flights cancelled today – Friday, March 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cancellations come amid the crisis in the Middle East and Gulf.<\/p>\n

08:04, 13 Mar 2026Updated 10:10, 13 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

\"All<\/p>\n

All the Birmingham Airport flights cancelled today – Friday, March 13<\/p>\n

More Birmingham Airport flights are being cancelled on Friday – including Qatar Airways, Emirates and Lufthansa services.<\/a> The cancellations come amid the crisis in the Middle East and Gulf.<\/p>\n

Both Emirates and Etihad are operating a limited flight schedule, while Qatar Airways is only operating a small number of routes to “reunite family and friends as quickly and safely as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n

The airline stated that \u201ceach flight requires careful planning and remains subject to regulatory approvals and airspace conditions.\u201d Lufthansa pilots, meanwhile, walking out for a 48-hour period, over a dispute in regard to pay and pensions.<\/p>\n

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A statement from Lufthansa reads: \u201cLufthansa is working intensively to keep the impact on our passengers as low as possible and has published a special flight schedule for both strike days.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to this schedule, more than 50 percent of the originally planned flight program can be operated on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor long-haul connections, the share is as high as 60 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below are all the cancellations from BHX on Friday.<\/p>\n

Departures<\/p>\n

13:45 – Frankfurt, Lufthansa LH 955<\/p>\n

14:10 – Doha, Qatar Airways, QR 034<\/p>\n

20:50 – Dubai, Emirates, EK 038<\/p>\n

Arrivals<\/p>\n

12:35 – Frankfurt, Lufthansa, LH 954<\/p>\n

12:40 Doha Hamad, Qatar Airways, QR 033<\/p>\n

18:45 – Dubai, Emirates, EK 037<\/p>\n

22:45 – Frankfurt, Lufthansa, LH 958<\/p>\n

Lufthansa passengers affected can request a refund or move their flight date for free up until March 23. Around 50 per cent of all Lufthansa flight will be cancelled, which includes 40 per cent of long-haul flights.<\/p>\n

This works out to around 300 flights a day, so 600 flights in total. A similar number of flights are cancelled each day until the strike ends.<\/p>\n

It means BHX could face further chaos on Saturday, March 14, too. The airline has since been forced to cancel a huge part of the flight schedule until the strike ends on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cancellations come amid the crisis in the Middle East and Gulf. 08:04, 13 Mar 2026Updated 10:10, 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3094,84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-birmingham-airport","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}