Austrian Airlines is resuming flight connections to Tel Aviv in Israel and Tehran in Iran, the AUA announced on Monday evening.
Accordingly, the two airports will be served again from next Thursday, September 5. However, there will initially be no overnight accommodation for the crews on site, it was said.
Since August 27, flights to Amman, Jordan and Erbil, Iraq have resumed.
The AUA, in consultation with the entire Lufthansa Group, to which the airline belongs, has suspended flights to Tel Aviv and Tehran since early August. The reason for this was threats of retaliatory measures from Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah against Israel.
The head of the radical Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, and a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, were assassinated in Tehran and Beirut respectively in late July. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in Haniyeh’s death.
Source: Krone
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