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Most foreign airlines stopped flying to Tehran this year. A few now show restart dates in their schedules. Those dates can move, and none of them comes with a guarantee. This page tracks what each airline is showing.
Where each airline stands (last checked 14 November 2026)
- Qatar Airways: Tehran stays in its winter schedule, but reservations are unavailable. Flight listings show Doha to Tehran restarting on 1 January 2027.
- Turkish Airlines and AJet: no Iran flights before March 2027. Turkish had been expected to return to Tehran and four other Iranian cities from the week of 28 March 2027. That date is now the earliest possible return.
- Pegasus: Iran has been removed from its booking system, with no return date.
- flydubai: all eight of its Iranian destinations dropped out of its later schedule in October. Reports say services may return if conditions in the region improve.
- Emirates: not flying to Tehran. Iran has restricted its airspace for UAE airlines since late September.
The latest cuts followed a new round of US sanctions on Iranian aviation in September. Turkey’s three main airlines cancelled their Iran flights from 21 September. The UAE suspended all flights by Iranian airlines from 24 September. Iran answered by restricting UAE carriers in its airspace.
A route is back when the airline sells seats on it. A date in a schedule filing can still slip. Avoid booking any onward plans around a flight you cannot yet buy.
If you need to travel before then, two overland routes are open. You can fly to Yerevan and cross from Armenia, or fly to eastern Turkey and cross by road. You can also fly to Istanbul and take an Iranian airline from there, as our flights guide explains. LiT takes no commission on Iranian airline tickets.
When foreign airlines return, LiT will add booking links to this page. For now, you can watch fares to Istanbul, the main hub for the journey. (Affiliate widget.)
Choose flexible fares while schedules keep changing. If a flight to your hub is delayed or cancelled, AirHelp can claim any compensation you are owed. Our insurance guide explains what cover is still available.
Turkish Airlines’ earliest listed return to Iran is the week of 28 March 2027.
Header photo: the main terminal at Imam Khomeini International Airport. Kat1100 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
