Virgin Atlantic to renew Israel flights forward of holidays

UK service Virgin Atlantic will resume flights between London and Tel Aviv from September 25, every week forward of the Excessive Holydays, in response to experiences within the overseas media. Flights could be booked on the service’s web site, with connection choices to the US.

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Like British Airways, Virgin Atlantic will supply direct flights between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv with a short cease for a crew change in Larnaca, Cyprus, though passengers will stay on the aircraft. It’s nonetheless deemed to unsafe for crew to remain over in Tel Aviv. On the return leg the aircraft will fly continuous from Tel Aviv to London. Previous to October 7, 2023 Virgin Atlantic operated two each day flights between Tel Aviv and London. From September 25, 2024 Virgin Atlantic will resume with just one each day flight. Virgin Atlantic will use bigger plane on the route than its rival British Airways, which makes use of a narrow-bodied Airbus A321.

Ryanair cancels Israel flights till finish of October

With its common connections between London and New York, Virgin Atlantic can be hoping to seize market share from El Al, which has a monopoly on direct flights between Tel Aviv and New York. El Al lately added a flight on the Tel Aviv-New York route and all 280 seats had been offered inside three minutes. Virtually no Tel Aviv – New York seats stay on El Al flights for the vacations, besides on premium and enterprise class, with return fares ranging between $4,500 and $7,500.

Over the previous week Lufthansa Group, the most important aviation group, which consists of Lufthansa Airways, Austrian Airways, Brussels Airways, Swiss, and Eurowings, resumed its flights to and from Israel, after greater than a month’s suspension. The group operates many flights to 6 locations in Western Europe: Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf, Vienna, Brussels and Zurich. Italian airline ITA has additionally resumed flights immediately with one each day flight between Tel Aviv and Rome. Different overseas airways which have resumed flights to Israel embrace Ethiopian Airways, Wizz Air, Bulgaria Air, Aegean, Air Europe, Iberia, and Tarom. On Tuesday Polish airline LOT additionally recommenced its Israel flights.

Nevertheless, Ryanair introduced that it could not resume Israel flights till the top of October.

Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on September 10, 2024.