Lufthansa Group Schedules Staggered Dubai Return From Late October

Lufthansa Group is staging its return to Dubai over several weeks. It will gradually resume flights to the city from late October 2026, and once the schedule is fully restored the group will operate up to 36 weekly flights to and from Dubai. Four airlines share the planned restart, with Lufthansa, SWISS, Eurowings and Austrian each bringing back routes on different dates.

Lufthansa opens the sequence on October 25 with five weekly Munich–Dubai flights. Frankfurt follows a day later, also with five weekly services. SWISS resumes a daily Zurich–Dubai rotation on October 27. Eurowings enters on November 1 with daily Berlin–Dubai service and four weekly Stuttgart–Dubai flights. Its Cologne Bonn–Dubai route starts November 3 at three weekly. Austrian Airlines is the last of the group’s carriers to return, with five weekly Vienna–Dubai flights on December 12.

The group has left room to change that plan. It will monitor the Middle East situation and may adjust flights at short notice, a caveat that has become common as network carriers reconsider regional schedules.

Dubai is among the destinations most affected by flight disruptions, with halts extended into October and later, according to Reuters. British Airways suspended services to Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bahrain and Amman through October 25. Singapore Airlines halted its Dubai service until October 24. Cathay Pacific paused Dubai and Riyadh through November 30. Air France is gradually restoring regional services, but its Beirut flights remain suspended until September 24.

Lufthansa Group’s wider Middle East timetable shows a similar pattern. On the Arabian Peninsula, Lufthansa resumes Frankfurt–Riyadh on September 10 with three weekly flights. Jordan returns via Austrian on October 2, with three weekly Vienna–Amman services, and Lufthansa puts its daily Frankfurt–Amman flight back on October 25. Beirut and Erbil are treated more warily: Eurowings resumed Beirut on July 1, while its Erbil flights stayed suspended until October 24.

The ramp-up is deliberately slow. By the time Austrian starts on December 12, Lufthansa’s Munich service will have been operating for about seven weeks. The group is not restoring all 36 weekly flights at once; it is rebuilding the destination in increments, keeping the option to pull back if the situation changes.

That makes Dubai look like a test case for how the wider network returns. Lufthansa judges the Gulf market ready for a substantial European presence, even while it keeps routes closer to the conflict suspended longer. If the Middle East stays stable, the December completion of the Dubai schedule gives the group a strong position heading into the new year. If not, the short-notice clause is already in place.