The American airline United Airlines announced Tuesday that it will resume flying to Israel starting March 15, after not landing at Ben Gurion Airport since the first days of the war in October 2023. Initially, the company will operate one daily flight on the Tel Aviv-New York/Newark route, and then, starting at the end of March, it will add another daily flight on this route. The flights will be operated on a Boeing 787 (Dreamliner).
A United flight does not come cheap. We found an economy class ticket on March 29, returning on April 5, including a suitcase, for $1,318. We also found a ticket for the same price on Passover - April 11th to 18th.
Last month, the American airline Delta Airlines began selling tickets for flights on the Tel Aviv-New York route starting in April, after not flying to Israel since the outbreak of the war in October 2023. According to the company's announcement, "Delta Airlines will resume its daily direct flights from New York-JFK to Tel Aviv on April 1. The flights will be operated on an Airbus A330-900neo aircraft and will serve approximately 2,000 passengers per week."
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United Airlines will resume flying to Israel on March 15
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El Al has been the only airline that operated direct flights to the United States since the early months of the war. In addition to the American companies, Arkia, in cooperation with TechAir, the Israeli high-tech headquarters, will begin operating flights to the United States starting on Saturday night.
In recent weeks, more and more foreign companies have announced their return to Israel. Air France, the national airline of France, resumed daily flights on the Paris-Haifa Airport route a few days ago. The company is expected to increase the number of daily flights in the future. The low-cost company Transavia France, a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM group, also returned to Israel starting January 28.
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The Lufthansa Group, which includes the companies Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings, has also begun to gradually resume its flights to and from Tel Aviv.
In addition, British Airways announced that it will resume flying to Israel starting April 5. The United Kingdom's national flag carrier will initially operate one daily flight on the Tel Aviv-London route, and starting April 20 it will operate two daily flights on the route.
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Delta Airlines will resume its daily direct flights from New York-JFK to Tel Aviv on April 15
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The Irish low-cost giant Ryanair also recently announced that it will resume operating a full flight schedule to and from Israel this summer, after not landing at Ben Gurion Airport since February 2024.
Earlier last month, the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air expanded its operations in Israel and began operating routes to Abu Dhabi, Rome and Milan, London, Warsaw, Krakow and Budapest, after recently operating only the route to Larnaca.
Also, Italian ITI Airways returned to Israel last month, and the low-cost airline EasyJet announced that it will return to flying to the country from June 1, 2025.