British Airways restarts its Heathrow-Dubai service on 3 November with one daily Boeing 787-10 flight, after suspending the route at the end of February because of the regional conflict.
British Airways has resumed flights between London Heathrow and Dubai, restoring a daily service on Tuesday 3 November after an eight-month suspension. The route was withdrawn at the end of February, when the United States-Israel war on Iran disrupted travel across the Middle East, and its return is the first step in a cautious rebuilding of the airline's Gulf network.
The restarted service operates once a day through the winter, using a Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, with one-way economy fares starting at 340 pounds. The outbound flight leaves Heathrow at 20:00 and lands in Dubai at 07:45 the following morning, while the return departs Dubai at 10:00 and arrives back in London at 14:55. British Airways plans to increase the route to twice daily in summer 2027, up from one daily flight this winter and well below the three daily services it operated before the suspension.
Dubai is not the whole story. Amman returns on 4 November with four flights a week, Riyadh is scheduled to return on 11 January 2027, Bahrain remains suspended until at least the end of March 2027, and Abu Dhabi has no return planned until the winter 2027-28 season. The staggered timetable shows an airline restoring capacity route by route as it judges airspace and operating conditions, rather than reopening its former Gulf network at once.
The dates, aircraft type, fares and wider network timetable are reported consistently by Travel Weekly and Travel Extra, both drawing on the airline's schedule, and the two accounts agree on the 3 November restart and the summer 2027 step-up to twice daily. What neither account can settle is how stable the restored service will prove: schedules across the Gulf remain subject to short-notice change, and the airline itself continues to review its Middle East network.
For passengers, the practical change is a direct London-Dubai option that has been missing since February, with a single daily departure to plan around this winter. For the airline, the route is a test of demand on a corridor where Gulf-based carriers kept flying through much of the disruption, and the next measure will be whether the daily service fills well enough to justify the planned second daily flight next summer.