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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #120 on: March 31, 2020, 05:12:34 PM »
ELAL just announced full suspension extended up to 05/02/2020.
After that they will first restore some flights to NYC, YYZ, LAX, HKG, BKK, JNB, LON  & CDG up to 05/30/2020.

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #121 on: March 31, 2020, 05:55:16 PM »
IINM Russia canceled all international flights.

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #122 on: April 03, 2020, 06:48:56 PM »
Driving past EWR this afternoon was surreal. Not one takeoff or landing. About a mile away I spotted one aircraft approaching EWR for landing.
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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #124 on: April 11, 2020, 02:19:03 PM »
All flights to Israel temporary halted.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-stops-all-flights-to-israel-until-quarantine-hotels-can-be-legally-mandated/

I dont get the difficulty of forcing people into hotels when they arrive. How do people slip through their fingers?

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #125 on: April 11, 2020, 03:23:51 PM »
I dont get the difficulty of forcing people into hotels when they arrive. How do people slip through their fingers?
From what I understand there was no legal framework in place to force people into hotels.

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #126 on: April 11, 2020, 03:32:55 PM »
From what I understand there was no legal framework in place to force people into hotels.
Also - they want to force travellers to pay for their quarantine. In order to do this - passengers need to agree in advance and sign accordingly

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #127 on: April 12, 2020, 05:23:40 AM »
Cabinet Approves Emergency Regulations Regarding Quarantne for Persons Returning from Abroad

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Office, the Finance Ministry and the Health Ministry)

The Cabinet, today (Sunday, 12 April 2020), by video conference, approved emergency regulations on quarantine by the state.

It was decided that all persons returning from abroad will, upon their return to Israel, be sent to quarantine by the state at designated hotels. In exceptional cases, the Health Ministry Director General, in consultation with GOC Home Front Command, shall have the authority to allow a person returning from abroad to be quarantined elsewhere for health or humanitarian reasons, or in other special circumstances, according to conditions that will be determined.

It was also decided to extend the validity of the regulations until 22 April 2020.

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #128 on: April 17, 2020, 01:38:24 PM »
My flight was changed by 12 hours.
Is that considered a significant schedule change that requires them to refund?

"On April 3, the Department of Transportation said it has been receiving “an increasing number of complaints” about the subject, and it issued a statement explaining that “U.S. and foreign airlines remain obligated to provide a prompt refund to passengers for flights to, within, or from the United States when the carrier cancels the passenger’s scheduled flight or makes a significant schedule change and the passenger chooses not to accept the alternative.”
Anyone know what's considered a "significant schedule change" that the DoT requires a refund?  My Air Canada CAN-US flight was changed by 12 hours from Sunday evening to Sunday morning. (They are not canceling flight)
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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #129 on: April 17, 2020, 01:46:10 PM »
Anyone know what's considered a "significant schedule change" that the DoT requires a refund?  My Air Canada CAN-US flight was changed by 12 hours from Sunday evening to Sunday morning. (They are not canceling flight)



My flight was changed by 12 hours.
Is that considered a significant schedule change that requires them to refund?

Yes.


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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #130 on: April 17, 2020, 01:57:04 PM »
Thanks
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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #131 on: April 19, 2020, 05:19:03 AM »
LY will lay off a quarter of its pilots, with total job cuts rising to 2,000, as part of an efficiency plan drawn up to receive government-backed loans, according to a report of the expected plan in TheMarker, which didn’t cite sources.

LY prepared plan over weekend with lender Discount Bank, will present it to Finance Ministry for approval Sunday or Monday

https://www.themarker.com/markets/.premium-1.8778313

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #134 on: October 01, 2020, 01:27:59 PM »
Is there a chance that United IAD-TLV will push off resuming the route? Am I safer booking a flight IAD-EWR-TLV? (for end of November)

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #135 on: October 01, 2020, 01:43:29 PM »
Is there a chance that United IAD-TLV will push off resuming the route? Am I safer booking a flight IAD-EWR-TLV? (for end of November)
If they cancel the route, provided they will have seats on the EWR-TLV route available, they should be able to put you on that flight IAD-EWR-TLV

Why not go for direct, and hope they fly?
Make stuff happen.

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Re: Air routes suspended due to virus
« Reply #136 on: October 01, 2020, 02:04:21 PM »
Is there a chance that United IAD-TLV will push off resuming the route? Am I safer booking a flight IAD-EWR-TLV? (for end of November)
A chance? Definitely. The question is if there's a chance they'll stick to the schedule. There is also a 'chance' non-Israelis will still require a special permit to fly.
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