Boarding bridges at Rafik Hariri International Airport on June 4, 2025. (Credit: Philippe Hage Boutros/L'Orient-Le Jour)
As Lebanon and Israel held their first direct negotiation session in Washington on Tuesday, and the United States and Iran are considering resuming indirect talks on Sunday in view of a possible peace agreement, several foreign airlines, such as Qatar Airways and Iraqi Airways, are gradually starting to return to Beirut’s airport.Others, including Air France and Turkish Airlines, are choosing to wait, amid fears of a jet fuel shortage — another consequence of the regional war that erupted on February 28.As announced a week earlier, Qatar Airways made its return to Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport (BIA) on Tuesday, after having been forced to fully and then partially suspend all its flights due to the war launched on Feb. 28 by the United States and Israel against Iran, according to BIA operations director Jalal Haidar, as well...
As Lebanon and Israel held their first direct negotiation session in Washington on Tuesday, and the United States and Iran are considering resuming indirect talks on Sunday in view of a possible peace agreement, several foreign airlines, such as Qatar Airways and Iraqi Airways, are gradually starting to return to Beirut’s airport.Others, including Air France and Turkish Airlines, are choosing to wait, amid fears of a jet fuel shortage — another consequence of the regional war that erupted on February 28.As announced a week earlier, Qatar Airways made its return to Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport (BIA) on Tuesday, after having been forced to fully and then partially suspend all its flights due to the war launched on Feb. 28 by the United States and Israel against Iran, according to BIA operations director Jalal Haidar,...
