Outrageous: American Airlines Is Suspending Flights To Israel Through Late March 2025

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American Airlines has extended its suspension of flights to Israel until late March, continuing a halt in operations that began at the onset of the Gaza conflict.

A representative for the airline announced on Wednesday that passengers with bookings for Tel Aviv flights can either rebook without incurring additional fees or cancel their plans and receive a full refund.

Over the weekend, the airline updated its travel advisory, confirming that flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport would remain on hold until March 29.

“We will continue to work closely with our partner airlines to assist customers traveling between Israel and European cities with service to the US,” the spokesperson stated.

However, as of Wednesday, the American Airlines website still listed flights to Israel starting in November, raising questions about whether these tickets were actually available for purchase.

Meanwhile, Delta Air Lines has also prolonged its suspension of Tel Aviv flights, now through September 30 instead of the previous date of August 31. United Airlines has halted its service to Israel indefinitely.

On Monday, Germany’s Lufthansa announced that, following a “current security analysis,” it would suspend all flights to Tel Aviv, as well as Amman, Beirut, Tehran, and Erbil in Iraq, until Monday.

The ongoing conflict in Gaza and rising tensions in the region have repeatedly disrupted air travel. When Hamas launched a significant attack on Israel last October, most international airlines quickly suspended their flights.

Although some services resumed in the following months, the situation became unstable again in April when Iran launched a large-scale drone and missile assault on Israel. This prompted several airlines to cancel their routes once more, while others tentatively resumed operations, only to face renewed concerns of another Iranian strike.

The most recent round of cancellations comes as Israel prepares for potential retaliatory actions from Iran and Hezbollah. This follows Israel’s July assassination of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut, after a deadly rocket attack by the group, as well as the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, for which Israel has not officially taken responsibility.

{Matzav.com}

4 COMMENTS

  1. Which 3-year-old writes your headlines? If they can’t get insurance for their flights, then they are not going to fly. ELAL has no problem because they are an Israeli company with Israeli insurance.

  2. I’m told that the flight attendants don’t want to fly to Israel because they don’t wish to stay there overnight! Why an airline interested in earning revenue wouldn’t hire other staff behooves me. I wonder if their issue is about antisemitism after all.
    My opinion is that an airline that wouldn’t fly to Israel isn’t worthy of our patronage after all. I won’t fly United, Delta nor American to anywhere as my little guy protest.

  3. Is ElAl paying airlines to suspend their flights to Israel and then charging customers astronomical prices in the name of “Oct. 7 War”?

  4. How is this outrageous? There is a major war going on in Israel. Within a radius of half an hour’s drive from the airport in any direction many missiles have fallen, drones have attacked, and terrorist attacks have occured. Why would any sane airline without a strong tie to Israel (El Al, Arkia, etc.) continue to fly?

    More to the point, I am not sure whether insurers allow these airlines to fly to Israel in the first place.

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