Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, Imperial Airways da kuma daga baya British Overseas Airways Corporation sun ci gaba da sabis 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 gabas na 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.