Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, Imperial Airways da kuma daga baya British Overseas Airways Corporation sun ci gaba da hidimar zuwa Lydda har zuwa faduwar Faransa a watan Yunin 1940. Lokacin da sojojin Japan suka ci gaba zuwa Burma da
Malaya a watan Fabrairun 1942, KLM ya rage hanyarsa zuwa Batavia kuma ya sanya Lydda ƙarshen gabashin hanyar. Misr Airwork, wanda ya dakatar da jirage a kan sanarwar yakin Birtaniya, ya sake komawa sabis na Cairo-Lydda-Nicosia na mako-mako a watan Mayu 1940.