{"id":481437,"date":"2026-03-18T02:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:53:10","slug":"uk-airline-british-airways-cancels-all-flights-to-dubai-until-summer-in-big-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481437\/","title":{"rendered":"UK airline British Airways cancels ALL flights to Dubai until summer in big move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dubai Airport has seen substantial flight disruption as British Airways announces it will halt all flights into Dubai until June as Iranian attacks on airports across the region continue<\/p>\n

19:18, 17 Mar 2026Updated 19:38, 17 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

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Passenger planes are parked at Dubai International Airport in Dubai (file photo)<\/p>\n

British Airways (BA) has cancelled all flights into Dubai until June as Iran continues its attacks on the UAE.<\/p>\n

BA confirmed that flights to Amman, Bahrain, Dubai <\/a>and Tel Aviv were now cancelled up to and including May 31, and flights to Doha were cancelled until April 30, the airline said in a new update.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The cancellations are] due to the continuing uncertainty of the situation <\/a>in the Middle East and airspace instability, and to provide more clarity to our customers,\u201d a BA<\/a> spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

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In 2025, Dubai International Airport was the world<\/a>\u2019s busiest airport for international passengers, accommodating nearly 90 million travellers.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of tourists have were stranded across the Middle East after the US-Israeli attacks against Iran<\/p>\n

December 2025 alone saw around 8.7 million passengers, the busiest single month in the airport\u2019s history, The Express reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The airport connects travellers to 291 destinations across 110 countries.<\/p>\n

The UK Foreign Office currently advises caution or against all but essential travel to the UAE and other Gulf states due to regional tensions.<\/p>\n

Those already in the UAE are advised to follow local authorities\u2019 instructions, register your presence with the UK government and be prepared for sudden changes in the security situation.<\/p>\n

Despite Dubai being on the UK Foreign Office\u2019s \u201cNo go\u201d list, many travellers were still choosing to take the risk and fly there, Travel journalist Simon Calder told BBC<\/a> Radio Scotland<\/a>\u2019s Breakfast programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubai Airport has seen substantial flight disruption as British Airways announces it will halt all flights into Dubai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[390,20873,84,168245,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news","tag-british-airways","tag-business","tag-dubai-airport","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481437","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=481437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}