Cathay Pacific has announced that it will restart its Middle East freighter operations in August, while passenger flights to the region are also getting back underway.
The Hong Kong-hubbed airline will, on 1 August, reintroduce Cathay Cargo’s freighter flights to Riyadh, while daily passenger flights to Dubai and four-times-weekly passenger flights to Riyadh will start on 1 September.
“Cathay will continue to closely monitor the evolving situation in the Middle East prior to the resumption dates,” the airline said in a statement.
At this stage, the carrier has not announced plans to restart its Dubai freighter operation.
The airline suspended operations to the Middle East back in March due to the outbreak of the US-Iran conflict.
The airline said that it had taken the decision to cancel the flights “in view of the volatile situation in the Middle East” and to provide “both our passengers and cargo customers with greater certainty for their planning”.
Cathay is not the only non-Middle East airline to announce a resumption of operations in the region.
Today, Turkish Airlines also announced that it would fully restore its Middle East passenger network, resuming flights to Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Kuwait, and Bahrain this July.
Following the recent restart of Dubai operations, these resumptions, alongside frequency increases to Amman and Beirut, will significantly boost regional connectivity, the airline said.
