...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...had become "difficult to assess."
The flight, with 138 passengers and five crew on board, did not have permission to land back in Zurich overnight Thursday so was instead diverted to Vienna, SWISS said.
"In view of the latest developments in the Middle East... the situation in Lebanon last night was difficult to assess," a front man told AFP.
"In order to gain time and to be able to properly assess the situation, they decided to take this step out of an abundance of caution."
In Vienna, passengers were rebooked onto other flights.
"We hope for the understanding of the passengers concerned and did our utmost to get them to their destination as quickly as possible," the front man said.
Following a review, SWISS decided to maintain its flight program to Beirut and Tel Aviv, but said it would monitor developments "very closely."