Air France and Transavia will not resume flights to Lebanon at least until the 14th

Air France and its low-cost subsidiary Transavia France are not going to resume their flights to Lebanon at least until August 14 due to the security conditions in that country, in a context of extreme tension in the Middle East, given the risk of extension of the conflict.

In a statement, the French flag company explained that an eventual reactivation of these flights will be subject to "a new evaluation of the situation" on the ground.

Air France and Transavia France stopped operating their lines with Lebanon on July 29.

Before making that decision, the first airline had a daily flight between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Beirut in each direction. Transavia France, for its part, operated eight flights a week between Paris-Orly and Beirut, to which were added two flights a week between Marseille and the Lebanese capital and one a week between Nice and Beirut.

Also for security reasons, these two companies do not fly over the airspace of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

The French Foreign Ministry has asked its citizens in Lebanon, in particular those who were passing through, to leave that country "when possible", and has advised them to take advantage of the air connections that are still in place to do so. service.

France has been recommending for months that they do not travel to Lebanon "given the risks of military escalation in the Middle East." EFE