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Here is a site with updated list of airlines flying or not flying:
https://www.passportcard.co.il/article/airlines-at-war/
in Hebrew

If it says, for example:
לא (כל הטיסות מבוטלות עד ל05.09)

It means as of now they are not flying until Dec. 5, not including, meaning they are set to restart on Dec 5.

Many airlines keep on pushing off the restart date.

Airlines flying and cities currently served to TLV - as of 11/11/24 (from the passportcard site, ones verified by the DDMS are in Blue)

ELAL - Network includes (not checked for active service): Europe: Vienna Brussels Sofia Zagreb Larnaca Paphos Prague Lyon Marseille Nice Paris Batumi Tbilisi Berlin Frankfurt Munich Athens Kefalonia Patras-Peloponnese Rhodes Santorini Sitia (Crete) Thessaloniki Budapest Dublin Milan Naples Rome Venice Chisinau Podgorica Tivat Amsterdam Krakow Warsaw Lisbon Porto Bucharest Moscow Belgrade Ljubljana Barcelona Madrid Geneva Zurich London
NA:  Toronto Boston Fort Lauderdale, Miami Area Los Angeles Miami New York
Arkia
IsraAir - Network includes (not checked for active service): Tel Aviv Athens Barcelona Batumi Berlin Bucharest Budapest Chisinau Dubai Larnaca Lisbon London Paphos Prague Rome Rovaniemi Sofia Tbilisi Tivat Varna Verona Warsaw Zanzibar (havent checked what is current)
Air Haifa
- Larnaca

Air Seychelles
Azimuth Airlines
Blue Bird Airways - Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Larnaka, Prague, Sofia, Vienna
Cyprus Airways - Larnaka
Ethiopian Airlines - Adis Ababa   
Etihad Airways - Abu Dahbi
FlyDubai - Dubai

Georgian Airways - Tibilisi
Hainan Airlines   - Shenzhen
HiSKy - Bucharest, Chisinau

Red Wings - Sochi, Zhukovskiy, Moskow
Smartwings -Prague
Tarom - Bucharest
Tus Airways -  Larnaka, Barcelona , Sofia, Vienna
   
Uzbekistan Airways

List sorted by destination airport code (for those who prefer this format) - Last updated 11/13
Note that daily refers to flights but not necessarily airlines. List derived from Ben Gurion flight boards but is only from Ben Gurion. Still, flights usually run both ways (anyone want to write this in, fine, but I'm done). Feel free to correct or add to the list, especially when an airline starts flying - but change the date the list was updated. North America in bold.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) - Ethiopian (Daily)
Sochi, Russia (AER) - Red Wings, Azimuth (Daily)
Amsterdam (AMS) - El Al (Daily)
Athens (ATH) - Arkia, El Al, Blue Bird, Israir (Daily - as many as ten flights a day)
Abu Dhabi (AUH) - Etihad (Daily)
Barcelona (BCN) - El Al, Blue Bird (Daily except Saturday) (Israir?)
Belgrade, Serbia (BEG) - El Al (Sun D'Or) (Mon, Wed, Fri)
Berlin (BER) - Blue Bird, El Al, Israir (Daily except Saturday)
Bangkhok (BKK) - El Al (daily except Friday)
Boston (BOS) - El Al (Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday until March - from April: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday)
Budapest (BUD) - El Al, Arkia, Blue Bird, Israir (Daily except Saturday)
Batumi, Georgia (BUS) - Arkia, Israir, El Al (Daily)
Paris (CDG, see below for ORY) - Arkia, El Al (Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs)
Moscow (DME) - Red Wings, El Al (Most days)
Dubai (DXB) - Israir, Flydubai, Arkia, El Al (Daily, often more than 10x)
Newark (EWR) - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Rome (FCO) - El Al, Arkia, Israir (Sun-Fri)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL) - El Al (no November flights for sale, selling Mon and Fri in December)
Frankfurt (FRA) - El Al (Mostly sold out but you might get lucky)
Phuket, Thailand (HKT) - El Al (Mon, Tues, Thurs)
JFK - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Chisinau, Moldova (KIV/RMO) - HiSky, FLYONE, El Al (Sun D'Or) (Daily except Fri)
Krakow (KRK) - El Al, Israir (currently Mon, Wed, Fri)
Los Angeles (LAX) - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Lanarca, Cyprus (LCA) - Tus, Arkia, Cyprus, Israir, Blue Bird, El Al (Sun D'Or)
Liege, Belgium (LGG) - Shows on flight board as El Al (chartered) and Challenge, but I don't see any for sale on GF
London (LHR, see below for LTN) - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Lisbon (LIS) - El Al, limited dates
Ljubljana, Slovenia (LJU) - Shows on flight boars as Israir, but no flights for sale on GF
London (LTN, see above for LHR) - El Al, Israir (Daily)
Madrid (MAD) - El Al, limited dates (?)
Manchester (MAN) - Arkia (Monday, Thursday, at least for now)
Miami (MIA) - El Al (Sun, Tues, Wed, Thurs)
Munich (MUC) - El Al (limited flights)
Milan (MXP) - Arkia, El Al (Sun, Tues, Thurs)
Tokyo (NRT) - El Al (currently Motzei Shabbos, Monday and Wed - next month no Mon)
Paris (ORY) - Transavia (listed on flight boards, but for sale only in December)
Bucharest (OTP) - El Al, Israir, Tarom, Bees, HiSky (Most days)
Paphos (PFO) - El Al (Sun D'Or), Israir (Random days)
Prague (PRG) - Arkia, Smartwings, Blue Bird, El Al, Israir (Daily)
Suceava, Romania - Bees (Sporadic schedule)
Thessaloniki (SKG) - El Al (Sun D'Or) (Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs)
Sofia, Bulgaria (SOF) - El Al, Arkia, Tus, Blue Bird, Israir (Many days)
Shenzen, China (SZX) - Hainan (sporadic)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (TAS) - Uzbekistan (Mon-Thurs)
Tbilisi, Georgia (TBS) - Arkia, Israir, El Al (Sun D'Or), Georgian (Daily)
Podgorica, Montenegro (TGD) - El AL (Sun D'Or) (Thursday, Sunday)
Vienna (VIE) - Tus, Arkia, Blue Bird (currently Mon, Wed, Fri)
Warsaw (WAW) - El Al, Israir, Arkia (Sun-Fri)
Zhukovsky, Russia - Red Wings (Sun, Tues, Thurs)
Zhurich - El Al (Sporadic availability)

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Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« on: October 08, 2023, 09:00:49 AM »

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2023, 10:32:45 AM »
AA flight TLV to JFK cancelled. Any advice/help??

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2023, 12:20:51 PM »
AA flight TLV to JFK cancelled. Any advice/help??

any flight available. It may have to be via china...
its not going to be a short stopage. Think covid, not weather.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2023, 12:26:39 PM »
AA flight TLV to JFK cancelled. Any advice/help??
Very challenging
Motsae Sukkos is always sold out.
Combined with the war and most foreign airlines cancelling their operations.

LY is completely sold out. Turkish as well

There are a few Emirates / FlyDubai tonight. I'd try my luck there.

I know people taking LY to European cities like ATH and then taking a separate flight from there

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2023, 01:27:55 PM »
I know people taking LY to European cities like ATH and then taking a separate flight from there
From what I see most LY flights to Europe are sold out this week. Please post if you see availability.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2023, 01:31:20 PM »
@tavster can we charter a flight we can fill it up?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2023, 01:45:36 PM »
From what I see most LY flights to Europe are sold out this week. Please post if you see availability.
Israir has availability to PRG and BUD on Wednesday/ Thursday

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2023, 01:48:34 PM »
Israir has availability to PRG and BUD on Wednesday/ Thursday
Also see availability with Ryanair to MLA.


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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2023, 02:52:45 PM »
Who is Pegasus airlines? I see they have available to SAW and from them you can continue to USA via stop in europe

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2023, 03:15:39 PM »
Who is Pegasus airlines? I see they have available to SAW and from them you can continue to USA via stop in europe
It's a Turkish low cost airline

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2023, 04:03:55 PM »
any ideas of flights? looking to leave to any relatively safe dest

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2023, 05:31:39 PM »
UA 91 on 10/11 wide open

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2023, 05:53:56 PM »
UA 91 on 10/11 wide open
and probably going to be cancelled soon

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2023, 09:45:57 PM »
Consensus is that turkey is fine to fly through?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2023, 09:46:16 PM »
and probably going to be cancelled soon

But definitely worth holding a ticket on…

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2023, 10:24:40 PM »
From what I see most LY flights to Europe are sold out this week. Please post if you see availability.
my sister just booked with elal to milan for tues morning

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #18 on: October 08, 2023, 10:27:34 PM »
my sister just booked with elal to milan for tues morning
It's sold out now

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2023, 01:01:34 AM »
I just booked Pegasus to SAW for a couple of people, there are at least 4 flights with seats today and tomorrow. From IST there are numerous continuing options of course. Let's hope they actually fly.
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