As a results of ongoing battle and regional tensions across the Middle East, lots of the world’s largest airways are constantly updating their travel advice – a lot of which is mirrored in Condé Nast Traveller’s UK travel advice hub.
The menace of missile and drone strikes is ongoing on the time of writing, Friday 20 March, and the closure of a lot of the Middle East’s airspace has resulted in numerous flights being affected.
Founded within the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas is now Australia‘s largest home and worldwide airline. The airline is usually recognised as the primary to introduce enterprise class travel as we all know it and, in 2025, greater than 56 million passengers travelled on Qantas and related Jetstar flights.
As a results of the battle, Qantas has made a number of modifications to its policies and schedule and continues to hold passengers up to date through its web site.
One of a very powerful developments is a major change to its direct flights between London and Perth. Due to required changes to flight paths, these flights are at present working through Singapore for a gas cease. Otherwise, there aren’t any different impacts to Qantas-operated flights to date.
In an announcement nonetheless stay and present as of Friday 20 March, the airline states, “The safety of our customers and crew is our highest priority, and where necessary we may adjust our flight paths accordingly. If your Qantas-operated flight is affected, we will contact you as soon as possible using the phone number and email address provided in your booking.”
While a majority of Qantas flights are working unaffected, the airline continues to supply further flexibility for prospects who’ve booked flights to/from or through the UAE, Qatar, Israel, Jordan, Oman and Bahrain by Qantas on accomplice airways.
Travellers with upcoming journeys who want to change or cancel their bookings can entry a fee-free refund, fee-free flight credit score or a fee-free date change for flights booked on or earlier than 6 March 2026 for travel between 28 February and 15 April 2026 (when rebooking to travel on or earlier than 31 May 2026, topic to availability).
It’s essential to notice that fare variations could apply, and fee-free modifications and cancellations are solely obtainable if you name Qantas – they don’t seem to be obtainable through the Manage Booking portal or the Qantas app.