UK service Virgin Atlantic will resume flights between London and Tel Aviv from September 25, per week forward of the Excessive Holydays, in keeping with studies within the international media. Flights may be booked on the service’s web site, with connection choices to the US.
Like British Airways, Virgin Atlantic will provide direct flights between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv with a quick cease for a crew change in Larnaca, Cyprus, though passengers will stay on the airplane. It’s nonetheless deemed to unsafe for crew to remain over in Tel Aviv. On the return leg the airplane 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.
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With its common connections between London and New York, Virgin Atlantic will likely be hoping to seize market share from El Al, which has a monopoly on direct flights between Tel Aviv and New York. El Al not too long ago added a flight on the Tel Aviv-New York route and all 280 seats had been bought inside three minutes. Nearly 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 international airways which have resumed flights to Israel embody 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 might not resume Israel flights till the tip of October.
Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on September 10, 2024.
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