easyJet won't fly from Tel Aviv to Paris
Transavia gets the nod
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easyJet won't fly from Tel Aviv to Paris
France's Aviation Authority rejects British low-cost company's request to offer flights from Israel to French capital, but allows Dutch-French airline Transavia's to introduce same route
he French Aviation Authority has rejected easyJet's request to introduce a Paris-Tel Aviv route
this summer, favoring Dutch-French airline Transavia instead.
Israeli authorities approved the request as part of the Open Skies
policy led by the Transportation Ministry and Civil Aviation Authority. easyJet filed a similar request with the French Aviation Authority, but was turned down this week.
easyJet, the biggest low-cost company operating in Israel, decided several weeks ago to start offering flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Ben-Gurion Airport this summer. The British company, which flies from Israel to quite a few destinations – including London, Berlin, Rome, Geneva and Basel – planned to offer six weekly flights on the new routes.
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At the same time, the French authorities approved Transavia's request to fly from Tel Aviv to Orly Airport in Paris.
easyJet expressed its disappointment over the French authorities' decision, saying that the other competitors on the route don't have the same wide deployment easyJet has.
Meanwhile, El Al Israel Airlines has announced its plan to add a daily flight to its three daily flights on the Tel Aviv-Paris route, thereby operating up to 23 weekly flights to the French capital.
The fourth daily flight will take off from Tel Aviv on Sundays through Thursdays at 12:45 pm, and from Paris at 6 pm, and will be offered on the company’s new Boeing 900-737 planes.
