While only four years have passed since BeOnd launched with a vision of selling direct flights to The Maldives, the market changed considerably amid the spike in jet fuel prices and security situation in the Middle East.
The premium airline was established out of Dubai in 2022 with an Airbus A319 and an A321 plane configured with exclusively lie-flat business seats. BeOnd had been running flights to the capital of The Maldives from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, as well as European cities such as Milan and Zürich.
Plans for a direct flights to the U.S. as well as service to London and Paris were also in the works when the the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran and ensuing retaliatory attacks in February 2026 thew the entire Middle Eastern region into chaos. The island nation associated with extreme luxury is located just 1,900 miles from Dubai across from the Indian Ocean while several of its routes from farther-away destinations operated through a stopover in the city.
BeOnd briefly restarts flights, shuts down again for November 2026
As passenger numbers fell dramatically amid Iranian drone strikes on Dubai in the early spring, BeOnd made the decision to ground its fleet and essentially shut down for the summer in the hopes that the situation would stabilize by then.
BeOnd did briefly restart some of its service from Zurich, Munich and Milan last October but has now once again suspended all scheduled flights until December 2026.
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“Our scheduled flights will not operate in November 2026,” the airline wrote in its latest travel update for customers. “The decision reflects current conditions in the region. “Flights affected [include] all scheduled flights from 30 October to 30 November 2026.”
The airline goes on to cite “current conditions in the region” as the reason for the latest round of cancelations which likely refers to ongoing Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia that have led to multiple governments upping their travel warning for their citizens. Without the ability to run flights and bring in income over the last eight months, BeOnd has also been crunched financially in a way that led to delays in paying its crew.
BeOnd launched at a time when The Maldives were seeing a significant spike in tourist interest.
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BeOnd promises refunds for travelers with canceled flights
The cancelations do not affect any chartered flights that the airline also offers; these will continue to be run and handled on a case-by-case basis depending on the security situation in the region in a given moment.
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BeOnd confirmed that anyone who booked flights in November can choose to either move their booking to a later date or receive a refund to the original method of payment. One can also get the paid amount in a travel credit that will be valid for 18 months from the original travel date.
“Our Guest Experience team will contact you within 72 hours, using the details in your booking,” the airline said further on the flight suspensions while adding the possibility of service resumption getting moved both forward and backward.
“If anything changes, you will hear from us first,” BeOnd writes further.
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