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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)

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #460 on: October 29, 2023, 05:02:49 PM »
And it's nothing new

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #461 on: October 29, 2023, 09:27:01 PM »
Didn't happen.
Flight aware is wrong?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #462 on: October 29, 2023, 09:32:40 PM »
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #463 on: October 30, 2023, 12:19:19 AM »
I'm sure this was already brought up, but if I booked a one way flight with Amex platinum for TLV to NYC and it was cancelled due to the war, would they help cover my new flight or any relief etc?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #464 on: October 30, 2023, 09:15:46 AM »
UA schedule now has EWR-TLV suspended till 11/11.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #465 on: October 30, 2023, 09:30:28 AM »
Yes
How does this happen? Intentional security measure to show flight somewhere else? Or just a bug in the data?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #466 on: October 31, 2023, 05:31:00 AM »
How does this happen? Intentional security measure to show flight somewhere else? Or just a bug in the data?

Don't know if its connected but GPS data has been messed around with all over Israel as a security measure

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #467 on: October 31, 2023, 06:24:55 AM »
Don't know if its connected but GPS data has been messed around with all over Israel as a security measure
For some reason only flight aware showed it wrong....
Flight radar 24  radarbox and adsb exchange showed it correctly

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #468 on: November 02, 2023, 02:58:27 PM »
Just a dp. A friend of mine got his travel insurance to pay out for his trip to Israel over Sukos/ST even though the t&c say war is excluded.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #469 on: November 02, 2023, 03:02:44 PM »
Just a dp. A friend of mine got his travel insurance to pay out for his trip to Israel over Sukos/ST even though the t&c say war is excluded.


What did they pay for?
What insurance?
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #470 on: November 05, 2023, 04:51:04 AM »
Cross-posting here if there are any nervous tourists still left; this rule also applies to tourist visas.

Via Chaim vChessed, visas that expired from October 7th are automatically being extended.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #471 on: November 06, 2023, 04:51:34 PM »
DP: My brother (and family) had their return flights to TLV with UA cancelled. He called the UA office in Belgium at 02-2-0088-68 and they rebooked all of them on LY.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #472 on: November 06, 2023, 07:45:47 PM »
DP: My brother (and family) had their return flights to TLV with UA cancelled. He called the UA office in Belgium at 02-2-0088-68 and they rebooked all of them on LY.
Why did he decide to try the office in Belgium?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #473 on: November 06, 2023, 08:06:54 PM »
Why did he decide to try the office in Belgium?
A friend recommended. Not sure it’s davka Belgium, maybe local offices in general are more flexible.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #474 on: November 08, 2023, 05:01:17 PM »
Any recent DPs on AA rebooking on LY? Planning a trip for later this month on BA/AA TLV-MIA, and want a backup in case of (almost certain) cancellation.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #475 on: November 08, 2023, 06:16:38 PM »
AC just cancelled till 1/4. Last night they were still selling 11/15!

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #476 on: November 09, 2023, 03:41:48 AM »
Any recent DPs on AA rebooking on LY? Planning a trip for later this month on BA/AA TLV-MIA, and want a backup in case of (almost certain) cancellation.
BA will rebook to El Al, but so far only for tickets issued prior to October 10th.  For now they only will rebook for flights departing up to November 21rst, but each week or so they move that date farther into the future.  The October 10th issue date though has not moved.  If you purchase a new BA ticket now I would guess you would at least be able to get a refund or flight credit, but rebooking may not be possible.

I'm not sure about AA issued tickets.

Here's BA's notice: https://tradeuk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9025/kw/tlv

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #477 on: November 09, 2023, 07:55:37 AM »
I booked Virgin (operated by Delta) tickets from JFK-TLV for 11/25 through Chase. They still aren’t flying and still haven’t canceled my flights. I called Chase and they wouldn’t give me a refund.

Any options?
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #478 on: November 09, 2023, 08:08:51 AM »
UA EWR-TLV cancelled through 11/24.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #479 on: November 09, 2023, 08:30:30 AM »
UA flights to TLV cancelled through 11/24.
FTFY.
Didn't check them all but checked a few.
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