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Multiple carriers have cancelled their planned flights to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion due to safety concerns related to the ongoing war between Israel and the Gaza Strip-based Hamas militant group. Israeli carriers continue to operate according to their schedules, however, and the country's main gateway and entire airspace are open to civilian operations.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Israel issued NOTAM A1057/23 on October 8 advising all airlines to review the changing safety and threat notifications. The regulator said it was "mitigating the risk to an accepted level of safety" but conceded that delays were possible. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an advisory Conflict Information Zone Bulletin (CZIB) on the same date confirming that, in its opinion, "there are no indications that these mitigation measures are not efficient or inadequate". The EU regulator is not actively recommending against flights to Israel and the US FAA has not issued its own NOTAMs concerning Israel.

As such, the only regulator to take steps limiting operations to Israel is Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, which banned all...