Overview
- The Lufthansa Group has suspended overflights of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, so Eurowings is using a longer southern corridor via Saudi Arabia, the Red Sea and Egypt.
- The added distance—about 1,094 km on the return—combined with strong westbound headwinds means some A320neo flights cannot reach Germany nonstop and are refuelling in Thessaloniki.
- Recent services to Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nürnberg and Berlin arrived hours late, with night-flight bans at Stuttgart and Düsseldorf prompting diversions or overnight holds.
- Eurowings told BILD that nine return flights from Saturday to Monday affected about 1,350 passengers, with some travelers bused from alternate airports such as Hannover or Cologne/Bonn.
- Eastbound legs to Dubai largely remain nonstop thanks to tailwinds, and the airline says the measures are precautionary and under continuous review with security authorities.