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April 2024

DELTA AIR LINES TO RESUME FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL STARTING JUNE

Delta planned to bring back its daily flights to Israel starting in June 7, following an extensive security risk assessment

D elta Air Lines announced its plans to resume direct flights from the United States to Israel, in June, becoming the second American carrier to do so since the October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel. The direct flight from New York’s JFK International Airport on Delta’s Airbus A330-900neo

followed an initial return of United Airlines, who began flying in March from Newark to Tel Aviv with a layover in Germany. While United started slow with their flights to Tel Aviv, Delta planned to bring back its daily flights to Israel starting in June 7, following an extensive security risk assessment.

After Five Months: Easy-Jet, the Low-Cost Giant, Returned to Israel

The EasyJet airline resumed its flights to and from Israel, slashing ticket prices

A fter five months: the low-cost giant EasyJet resumed its flights to and from Israel. During April 2024, the company flies only to London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Geneva, Basel and Milan. Flights to the other destinations should return this October. As mentioned, the airline stopped flying to Israel with the outbreak of the war and

was supposed to return about a week ago, but the date was postponed. Easy-Jet finally returned to Israel on March 25th, 2024. However, as months passed, while foreign airlines began trickling back, and gradually - the prices, which soared during that period, started to fall to more manageable levels. An analysis, by Israeli

website Secret Flights, shows that price differences for various destinations can reach down more than half – mostly thanks to East-Jet. Just one

example, price of a flight to Amsterdam before Easy-jet’s return: $610 (El Al). Price after Easy-jet’s return: $407. The difference: 34%.

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