{"id":13276,"date":"2026-05-18T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/18\/american-airlines-cancels-flights-israel-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:00:18","slug":"american-airlines-cancels-flights-israel-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/18\/american-airlines-cancels-flights-israel-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Cancels All Flights to Israel Until Early 2027 Amid Security Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines, the world&#8217;s largest airline, has announced it will suspend all flights from the United States to Israel until early January 2027. This decision comes in response to ongoing security instability in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s Channel 12 television reported that the airline has halted all flights to Ben Gurion Airport due to the current situation. Ben Gurion is considered Israel&#8217;s primary international airport.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, Israel&#8217;s aviation director warned that Ben Gurion Airport has effectively become a military airfield for the United States, and that Israel currently does not have an international airport functioning in the conventional sense.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli media have also reported that despite a declared ceasefire, air traffic at this airport has significantly decreased, with most of its runways almost devoid of commercial flights. Meanwhile, several major global airlines remain cautious about resuming flights to Israel due to security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines cancels all flights to Israel until early 2027 amid ongoing security instability at Ben Gurion Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}