Lufthansa, Air Europa halt Sunday’s Tel Aviv flights after Houthi missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport

By Sharon Wrobel

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4 May 2025, 12:09 pm

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Sharon Wrobel is a tech reporter for The Times of Israel

View of the Ben Gurion International Airport, May 4, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

German carrier Lufthansa and Spanish airline Air Europa halt flights to and from Tel Aviv today after a ballistic missile from Yemen struck an area at the country’s main Ben Gurion Airport.

The Lufthansa group, whose carriers also include SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines, cancels all flights to and from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport scheduled for today, according to its website.

Earlier, Ben Gurion Airport temporarily halted takeoffs and landings following the launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen, a number of minutes before the projectile entered Israeli airspace. The IDF failed to intercept the missile.

The airport was fully reopened an hour later.