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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 (12/15: added Aegean and Azerbaijan)
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, Aegean (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)
Baku, Azerbaijan (GYD) - Azerbaijan Airlines (daily)
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), AirHaifa, Aegean
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, last flight Monday Jan 6 25)
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)

Author Topic: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread  (Read 237567 times)

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #340 on: October 13, 2023, 04:21:58 PM »
https://twitter.com/KolHaolam/status/1712902963323085184?s=20

My relatives along with some others involved with SHM spent the last 3 days arranging this, its been a wild ride.

https://www.flightradar24.com/HFM482/326ba89a
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #341 on: October 13, 2023, 04:32:31 PM »
If anyone in Israel sees this after Shabbat please go on arkias website and book them immediately before they sell out
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Tel Aviv - Athens International Airport, Greece - October 16 (Monday) - 7:40 PM - 65 seats available.
Tel Aviv - Athens International Airport, Greece - October 17 (Tuesday) - 6:30 AM - 28 seats available.
Tel Aviv - Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus - October 15 (Sunday) - 4:00 AM - 100 seats available.
Tel Aviv - Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus - October 17 (Tuesday) - 1:00 PM - 18 seats available.
Tel Aviv - Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates - October 15 (Sunday) - 5:35 AM - 9 seats available.
Tel Aviv - Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates - October 16 (Monday) - 5:35 AM - 30 seats available
 
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #343 on: October 13, 2023, 05:12:34 PM »
My relatives along with some others involved with SHM spent the last 3 days arranging this, its been a wild ride.

https://www.flightradar24.com/HFM482/326ba89a

Landed!

Lots of traffic to Lakewood, monsey or Brooklyn so I guess they will go to teaneck.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #344 on: October 13, 2023, 05:13:47 PM »
Landed!

Lots of traffic to Lakewood, monsey or Brooklyn so I guess they will go to teaneck.

They got psak from 3 poskim stating that they can travel to anywhere on the bus as long as they get on before shkia.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #345 on: October 13, 2023, 05:18:36 PM »
Plane just stopped at the gate, exactly 1 hour left to Shkia

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #346 on: October 13, 2023, 05:21:53 PM »
seems like fuel stop took almost 3 hrs  ::)
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/HFM482
Why did it take that long?
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #347 on: October 13, 2023, 05:49:12 PM »
They got psak from 3 poskim stating that they can travel to anywhere on the bus as long as they get on before shkia.

There are better and worse ways to go regarding tchumin especially since it can effect what they can do after they get there.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #348 on: October 13, 2023, 05:55:33 PM »
There are better and worse ways to go regarding tchumin especially since it can effect what they can do after they get there.

I don’t know anything but R’ SM Katz and R’ Forcheimer are on the case. There are some specifics that haven’t been mentioned.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #349 on: October 13, 2023, 06:02:56 PM »
They arranged a custom line for passport control. Loading onto buses just in time bh.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #350 on: October 13, 2023, 06:04:08 PM »
I don’t know anything but R’ SM Katz and R’ Forcheimer are on the case. There are some specifics that haven’t been mentioned.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #351 on: October 13, 2023, 06:45:00 PM »
DL just emailed me an extended waiver for anyone with tickets to TLV. These can be changed to any date till 9/6/24.
Fare difference is waived for travel thru 12/31/23.
This is great for people who booked low season or BE and can now (hopefully) fly at peak dates.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #352 on: October 14, 2023, 12:11:35 PM »
Location:  Ben Gurion Airport, Israel

There are flights departing on a rolling basis from Ben Gurion International Airport today 14 October and through the night and tomorrow morning.  Please go to Ben Gurion International Airport, Terminal 3 if you wish to depart Israel.  U.S. Embassy personnel will be present to direct you and provide specific flight information.
 
Instructions for travelers: 
Each traveler must be a U.S. national or the immediate family member (spouse/partner, children under age 21) of a U.S. national and have a valid passport.   
If you do not currently have your valid U.S. passport in your possession, please immediately reply to this email so that we may assist you in making an appointment in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv to obtain one. 
Family members who are not U.S. citizens must be eligible for entry to the destination. 
Greece entry requirements can be found here:  https://www.visitgreece.gr/before-travelling-to-greece/passports-visas/ 
Germany entry requirements can be found here:  https://tel-aviv.diplo.de/il-de/service/05-VisaEinreise/-/1585738
Each traveler may bring one carry-on bag up to 22 lbs./10kg. and one checked bag up to 50 lbs./22 kg. 
Travelers cannot bring pets.
In order to board the flight, you must sign a promissory note (commitment to repay). If possible, please print out and complete a DS 5528 promissory note (available at https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds5528.PDF ).  Having a complete DS 5528 with you on arrival will help expedite your departure process. The cost of the transportation will be no greater than the amount of a full-fare economy ticket to the designated destination. 
Given the unpredictable security situation, flight times may change; be prepared to wait.  Travel within Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza is conducted at your own risk.   The U.S. government cannot guarantee your safety.    
 
U.S. consular officers will be available at Ben Gurion and at the destination airport to assist and provide information about onward travel to the United States.  Limited flight availability means you may not be able to choose your first-destination airport.  You will be responsible for booking hotel accommodations and onward flights from Athens or Frankfurt.   

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #353 on: October 14, 2023, 01:29:04 PM »
Anyone know anyone cancelling TLV-MIA this week? Thanks

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #354 on: October 14, 2023, 01:38:15 PM »
Anyone in Israel (now after Shabbat), there is a free charter flight departing tomorrow morning sponsored by Shai Fund direct from Tel Aviv to Nashville, TN.  Priority is for residents of Otef Aza (the towns near Gaza) and families, but worth trying to register.  There is also a flight departing to Athens on Monday.  Details:

נתרמו מעל מאה מושבים בטיסות לארה״ב ויוון, עדיפות לתושבי העוטף ומשפחות

תל אביב (בן גוריון) – נשוויל, טנסי, ארה"ב
יום א', 10.15
המראה: 9:15 (תדלוק בליסבן)
שירות: מזוודה + טרולי
חברת הינן אירליינס – נתרם על ידי Shai Fund
לינק להרשמה: https://wkf.ms/3ZOiabF

תל אביב (בן גוריון) – אתונה
יום ב', 16.10
המראה: 8:55
שירות: טרולי
חברת ישראיר – נתרם על ידי Shai Fund
לינק להרשמה: https://wkf.ms/3ZOiabF

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #355 on: October 14, 2023, 02:33:19 PM »
Anyone in Israel (now after Shabbat), there is a free charter flight departing tomorrow morning sponsored by Shai Fund direct from Tel Aviv to Nashville, TN.  Priority is for residents of Otef Aza (the towns near Gaza) and families, but worth trying to register.  There is also a flight departing to Athens on Monday.  Details:

נתרמו מעל מאה מושבים בטיסות לארה״ב ויוון, עדיפות לתושבי העוטף ומשפחות

תל אביב (בן גוריון) – נשוויל, טנסי, ארה"ב
יום א', 10.15
המראה: 9:15 (תדלוק בליסבן)
שירות: מזוודה + טרולי
חברת הינן אירליינס – נתרם על ידי Shai Fund
לינק להרשמה: https://wkf.ms/3ZOiabF

תל אביב (בן גוריון) – אתונה
יום ב', 16.10
המראה: 8:55
שירות: טרולי
חברת ישראיר – נתרם על ידי Shai Fund
לינק להרשמה: https://wkf.ms/3ZOiabF

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Update: Nashville flight postponed to around 1:00am Wednesday (i.e. middle of the night between Tuesday and Wednesday)

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #356 on: October 14, 2023, 04:25:31 PM »
https://www.projectdynamo.org/evacuation-request/israel-evacuation-request/

AFAF anyone know anything about this?
Message from Zvi Gluck:

We have some more news... There are a few potential options, and I would strongly recommend pursuing all of them. Option 1: The US Government organized evacuation flights for American citizens and their immediate family members. These flights are not direct to the USA but to Athens, Greece, and you would have to book your own commercial flights back to the USA from there. There are many more flights from Athens to the USA that have been added to accommodate the expected increase in demand - https://cacms.state.gov/s/crisis-intake. Option 2: Project Dynamo is setting up evacuation flights - https://www.projectdynamo.org/ Option 3: Speak to a private travel agent and book multi-leg flights from Israel to the USA. Many people have been able to do this but have had to have up to four stopovers. If this is related to a funeral, medical emergency, or other life/death related emergency, please reach out to David Kushner, Amudim’s Director of Government Relations, by email at dkushner@amudim.org, 24 hours a day. Please make sure the subject line says "Emergency." If you no longer need evacuation, please update your submission to 0 passengers and check off that you do not need evacuation. This will help us as we try to arrange additional flights."

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #357 on: October 14, 2023, 04:27:20 PM »
Location:  Ben Gurion Airport, Israel

You have been assigned to board a flight departing Israel on Saturday, 14 October for either Athens or Frankfurt.  Please arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, Terminal 3, no later than 9:00 AM.  U.S. Embassy personnel will be present to direct you.  

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #358 on: October 14, 2023, 07:38:40 PM »



Seems to be availability.

Elal is also adding flights however they are not selling it online only by calling in.(Don't know if travel agents do have it)

Friday afternoon they added LY003 leaving oct 17 8:20 pm, with a one way ticket going for approx $700-$800

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #359 on: October 14, 2023, 07:57:08 PM »
Anyone know anyone cancelling TLV-MIA this week? Thanks
I know a TA in our office that should be able to help, you can PM me or send an email directly at i8008080(AT)gmail.com
this guy has been booking tens (maybe even hundreds..) of elal tickets the past week, Although most of them where to EU, but did some US as well and says he should have no problem snapping a TLVMIA seat