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A limited number of seats will be available for the estimated 150,000 Israelis stranded abroad.
El Al, Israel’s national carrier, posted a record net profit of $545 million in 2024.
The Interior Minister has instructed the relevant authorities to operate in emergency mode following the pogrom in Amsterdam.
By Max Gelber
The cost of a plane ticket to the US on an El Al flight currently starts at close to $1,000 and the flights are packed
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
United and Delta Airlines are suspending flights due to escalating security tensions in the region.
Security protocols were activated on all El Al flights following the incident.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Since Oct. 7, El Al has strategically adjusted its U.S. flight schedule to uphold an air bridge which is vital for the State of Israel," stated Shlomi Zafarani, an El Al vice president.
It might also be a good time for all the Jews left in South Africa to pack up and leave.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Another milestone in El Al’s continued growth in Florida,” a company executive stated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Flight LY318 will be canceled during the summer months as travelers had previously started the check-in process prior to the end of the Jewish day of rest.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s national carrier recently relocated its American headquarters from N.Y. to the Sunshine State.
The passengers should be grateful the stewardesses didn't dress up like handmaids.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The added service at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Broward County “will help to boost business, tourism and trade opportunities,” said its mayor, Lamar Fisher.
Five other airlines, Frontier, Aeromexico, Air India, TAP Portugaland Avianca were also hit with similar fines and penalties.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If El Al goes ahead with its plans, Canadians who want to travel to Israel will have to use Air Canada or fly out of the United States.
The outline will include an inflow of tens of millions of dollars in the coming period to come from the controlling shareholders of the company and the state, and it will allow the company to get through the crisis in the coming months.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The airline had wanted to start the flights last year, but the coronavirus outbreak delayed those plans.
Arkia and Israir have also been offered multi-million dollar grants by the government.
The Israir flight left Tel Aviv at 8:15 A.M. local time with about 100 people on board, including the Israeli businessman Rami Levi.
The team will be utilizing techniques and tools developed in Israel which have proven to be highly successful in assisting those who have suffered from similar incidents.
The test has a 100% success rate in identifying people who are infected.
By Israel Hayom
With Israel’s national carrier the only airline operating flights for Israelis stranded in America due to the COVID closure of Ben-Gurion Airport, the Transportation Dep’t is threatening to prevent El Al from landing in the U.S.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A joint U.S.-Israel delegation led by senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner and Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat will be aboard.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Oct. 12, El Al plans to resume flights along its main routes to New York, London and Paris.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli airline is extending the unpaid leave of most of its 6,080 employees • El Al CEO: “There is still a significant way to go until the restart of scheduled flights.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
So far, the airline’s parent company, Knafaim, has rejected the 30-year-old son of U.S. businessman Ken Rozenberg’s offer.
“This is a diplomatic achievement with significant economic impact on the State of Israel,” the Foreign Ministry stated Thursday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“In light of the low demand for passenger flights, the company has decided to extend the temporary cessation of flights,” said the airline.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
That loss came before the coronavirus, which has only grounded planes and cost the airlines even more money.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Flights won't resume due to regulations barring entry to foreigners and requiring returning Israelis to self-isolate for two weeks, airline says • Israeli Health Ministry to review policy on May 15.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli airliner has reported to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that the epidemic could cost it $70 million in lost revenue from January to April.
By JNi.Media
The man had been refused entry into Israel and sent back to SA on the next plane.
Petty arguments and egos, how far will it go?
The major indices on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) traded almost unchanged Tuesday with the TA-35 moving 0.03 percent and the TA-125 edging up 0.21 percent.
"When the only contact people have with the Orthodox Jewish world is negative and aggressive, it reflects badly on all of us," a hareidi-religious businesswoman said.
The nonstop flights return this November.
The link between the Israeli and Chinese peoples is an ancient one, dating from the Jewish community in Kaifeng a thousand years ago.
233 North American new Olim arrived home to Israel this morning.
The flight is from NY to Tel Aviv. The anonymous threat said the bomb was in the kitchen.
The plane turned around to pick up the missing guards.
By JNi.Media
If Israel's security forces had used this yardstick in their approach to predictive profiling it would have choked not just its international airports, but traffic on the streets in many cities, too.
American Airlines shuttering its flights to Israel.
Update: The union has called off the strike after reaching an agreement with the Airport Authority.
By JNi.Media
The laser beams apparently originated from an Arab village in the Shomron.
Approximately 70,000 passengers on 430 flights will have passed through Ben Gurion Airport by the end of Thursday, making it the busiest day of the year so far. Tourism is up by approximately 7 percent, and 1.7 million passengers are expected to arrive and depart at the airport next month. Israel suffered a sharp decline […]
The airline apparently thought it could save some money by not paying for expensive ground time at JFK An El Boeing 747-400 plane carrying 342 passengers to New York turned back to Israel early Thursday after indications of low oil pressure in one engine. Safety apparently was not a consideration for flying to Israel since […]
El Al flight to NY cancelled Monday morning due to labor dispute; weather about to play havoc for Israeli air travel.
"I almost missed my flight. How could El Al act so irresponsibly?"
Boston area residents are thrilled there will soon be direct flights between Logan and Ben Gurion Airport.
Boston will be the fourth city in the United States for El AL flight.
Were you on the plane? Let us know what really happened.
Wouldn’t be a lot easier if fanatic Haredim would simply charter their own planes?
By JTA
A simple solution for Haredi demands would be separate planes.
By Tibbi Singer
Subject to government approval, EL AL will place its “LY” code on select JetBlue flights to and from JFK and Newark, which will presumably expand the options for EL AL customers throughout the United States.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
An airlift of 21 flights from El- Al Airlines flying from 10 different international locations, are bringing parents of lone soldiers serving in the IDF to Israel.
They're building a new control tower at Ben Gurion International Airport. This is the view, and what it looks like.
Only in Israel... Israeli President Ruby Rivlin personally welcomed new Olim (immigrants) as they step off the plane today, August 12, 2014. This flight was called the "Soldier's Flight" as 110 of the young people on this Aliyah flight are joining the IDF.
By Shalom Bear
Thousands of Israelis in Turkey have been trapped there due to the war with Gaza.
By Shalom Bear
Israel threatened to go disproportional on Gaza, if the FAA ban on US flights to Israel wasn't rescinded.
By Rachel Levy
Did the U.S. allow Hamas terrorists rule Israel's skies? Why would the Obama administration do that?
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler contemplated some new El Al slogans like: "El Al - Our pilots are trained in evasive maneuvers".... Let's hear your new El Al Slogans...
By Shalom Bear
With numbers like that, it's no wonder Israel never feels crowded.
The Israeli version of the Italian strike left hundred of travelers stuck at the airport with long delays, and one flight was completely cancelled.
HAS and El Al are no longer flying the friendly skies together - and loyal customers are getting hurt the most.
The familiar symbol of the Israeli flag that adorns El Al airplanes will be accompanied the logo of the Vatican when the airline brings Pope Francis back from Israel to the Vatican after his visit in May. A specially selected crew will man the plane, which will carry the pope, 30 church officials and dozens […]
After a half decade hiatus due to security disagreements, Israel is set to resume Israeli flights to Turkey in Summer 2014. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz announced today that the disagreement resulting from security arrangements in Turkey have been resolved. The agreement to resume flights was signed today after Turkey acquiesced to Israel's security requirements. Turkish […]
Praying in a minyan on an airplane is forbidden if it robs others passengers of their sleep or interferes with the duties of stewards and stewardesses, ruled newly elected Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Replying to a congratulatory letter from El Al CEO Eliezer Shkedy on the election of the […]
El Al announced it will halt all daytime flights to Eilat starting Thursday, two weeks after resuming flights based on an understanding with government aviation officials that a solution would be found to a new landing path that El Al considers too dangerous to use. Terrorist attacks from the neighboring Sinai Peninsula have occasionally targeted […]
El Al has signed an agreement with GetTaxi to offer passengers discounts for GetTaxi's cab hailing service in New York, Tel Aviv and other cities where it operates, the Globes business newspaper reported. The discount from JFK to Manhattan will take $25 off the usual fare of $60-85. The discount program also is available in […]
El Al video cameras have caught seven baggage handlers at JFK airport who stole passengers' valuables, including cash, watches, computers and jewelry. The ariline became suspicious when a number of passengers complained about missing items. El Al placed a video camera in April to monitor the thieves and discovered they did more than just handle […]
A smoke detector warning in a bathroom forced an El Al airplane with 324 passengers on the New York-Tel Aviv route to land in Athens late Wednesday night, according to the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper. All of the crew and passengers are safe, and the airline placed them in hotel rooms before they could resume […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A promotional package on the EL Al website for an August concert by Pink Floyd member and BDS activist Roger Waters. El Al said it canceled the package and removed it from its website when it learned of the matter on Wednesday.
Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz signed an Open Skies agreement with the EU on Monday in Luxembourg. The agreement which is to be gradually implemented over the next 5 years, until it goes fully into effect in 2018, should lower prices significantly on flights between Israel and Europe. Open Skies will allow EU and Israeli […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Stars from the hit American TV shows “Scandal” and “Once Upon a Time” visited the Western Wall Friday night during and found themselves immediately recognized by religious Jewish prayer-goers. ''People approached us at the Western Wall, saying they watch our shows,'' said Katie Lowes, who stars in the new American political thriller television series “Scandal,” […]
By Batya Medad
This is a Marie Antoinette government whose theme is, "Let them eat cake."
The Histadrut national labor union has called off its planned shutdown of Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday morning, and workers of Israeli airlines have ended their strike following a special agreement between the government and El Al. The agreement was signed Monday evening in Israel, less than two hours before the Labor Court was to meet […]
The Histadrut national labor union will shut down Ben Gurion Airport for five hours Tuesday morning in a solidarity move with employees of El Al, Arkia and Israir. They shut down the three airlines starting Sunday morning because of their opposition to the “open-skies” agreement, which will not go into effect until next April. Tuesday’s […]
El Al has cancelled all flights that were scheduled to take off before 9 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) as its workers continue to strike even after the Cabinet approved the European-Mediterranean Sea "Open Skies" aviation agreement. Click here to understand the agreement and why the unions are striking. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "The goal […]
Unions at El Al, Arkia and Israir Airlines announced Thursday they will ground all planes beginning Sunday if the government carries outs plan to approve the open skies agreement at Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting. El Al workers committee chairman Asher Edry told Globes, "We demand that all the promises made to us before the agreement […]
Look up in the sky? Is It a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Plastic Man – the Orthodox Jew who wrapped himself in plastic on an airplane, apparently because he is a very scrupulous Kohen.
Due to Hurricane Sandy, El Al has canceled 3 flights to New York. Flights 001, 027, and 007 (Tuesday) have been canceled, as well as return flights to Tel Aviv. El Al is allowing passengers on the canceled flights to reschedule to different flights, at no extra charge.
An American woman died on El Al's Tel Aviv-New York flight on Tuesday. Medical personnel that happened to be on the flight tried to save her, but weren't able to. She died 6 hours into the flight. The woman's family in New York were informed by El Al, and were waiting at the airport.
Citing high costs and a sharp reduction in reservations, El Al has announced that it is about to stop its regular flights to and from Cairo, Egypt. Israel and Egypt have kept aviation ties since the signing of the peace treaty more than 30 years ago.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Yochanan Danziger to discuss an El Al ticket processing error, how cheaper tickets encourage Jews to visit the Land of Israel, and how Jews from all backgrounds become can easily become emotional experiencing Shabbat in Jerusalem.
Debra Ryder, a Jewish resident of Florida and an El Al passenger, is asking the carrier for 50,000 shekel ($12,500) in compensation for allegedly switching her seat on a flight from the U.S., after a Haredi man refused to sit next to her. She claims that the flight attendant moved her without her expressed consent […]
By JTA
An El Al spokesperson said the airline had not decided whether or not to honor round-trip tickets to Israel that were offered erroneously for prices as low as $330. On Wednesday afternoon, the airline issued the following statement via Twitter: "Thanks for your patience. Details/decisions re incorrect fares that were briefly sold on Monday are […]
The past decade saw the privatization of El Al and today the airline is more dedicated to keeping public shareholders happy than she is to fulfilling any sort of national mission. A perfect case in point happened recently when a profit-motivated El Al attempted to charge the President of the State of Israel an exorbitant $4,700 to haul a security mandated oxygen tank.
By Molly Cornfield, Israel Campus Beat
Imagine a different kind of Israel program. One that features a wide range of Israeli citizens sharing their own stories about Israel. And all of them work for the country's national airline.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
The bodies of the four victims of Monday’s shooting attack at the Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse arrived at Ben Gurion Airport accompanied by ZAKA volunteers. The bodies were flown out on the midnight El Al flight from Paris to Tel Aviv.
JERUSALEM – Even as Mossad agents and a team of IDF cyber-warfare specialists began an intensive global hunt for “Ox Omar,” the alleged Saudi hacker who exposed the financial records of thousands of Israeli credit-card holders, the defiant cyber-terrorist launched a second wave of “virtual jihad” attacks on a number of Israeli websites including some government sites and those of El Al and several Israeli banks.
Move follows the downing of El Al and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange websites by anti-Israel hackers.
Cyber attacks come one day after Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al websites downed.
By Sam Ser
Hackers followed through with their pledge to step up their cyber war with Israel, shutting down the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al Airlines on Monday.
Anti-Israel hacker ox0mar responsible.
July 3, 2026 
