Eurowings is giving its winter schedule a serious Middle East upgrade. From the 2026/27 season, the Lufthansa-owned carrier will expand flights from six German airports — Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover and Stuttgart — with new destinations and extra frequencies reaching into Northern and Southern Europe, the Canary Islands, Egypt and, most notably, the Gulf and wider region.

The headline news is Baghdad. The Iraqi capital is new to the network, with two weekly direct flights starting from both Berlin and Düsseldorf on 10 December 2026. They slot in alongside existing Iraq services and give the country's diaspora and business travellers a second gateway city.

Dubai remains the biggest draw: 14 weekly flights in total, daily from Berlin, four times a week from Stuttgart and three from Cologne/Bonn. Elsewhere in the region, Jeddah gets twice-weekly flights from Berlin and Stuttgart plus three weekly from Cologne/Bonn. Erbil — a strong route for Iraq's Kurdish north — will be served from all six German bases: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover and Stuttgart.

Further east and south, Tel Aviv gets three weekly services from Düsseldorf, and Beirut is linked with Stockholm, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Prague and Salzburg — a genuinely pan-European spread. Amman in Jordan gets two weekly flights from Stuttgart.

There's a comfort angle too. From 1 December 2026, Eurowings rolls out its Premium BIZ Seat on all Dubai flights plus selected routes to London Heathrow, Mallorca and Málaga. The concept takes the first two rows of the A320neo and arranges eight seats in a roomy 2x2 layout, with wider seats, extra legroom, deeper recline and adjustable leg rests — a business-ish option on routes that previously offered nothing but standard economy.

For travellers, the practical takeaway is choice and one-stop-free access. Anyone flying between Germany and the Middle East — visiting family, working in the Gulf, or heading to Jeddah for Umrah — gets more direct options from more German cities than before, without routing through a mega-hub in Frankfurt or Istanbul. The Premium BIZ Seat also makes a long-haul-feeling flight like Berlin–Dubai a bit more bearable for those willing to pay up.

Bookings typically open well ahead of the winter season, and Eurowings' winter fares from German bases often undercut full-service rivals, so it's worth watching for launch offers once the December 2026 dates load into the system.