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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 278048 times)

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #820 on: February 10, 2024, 12:32:26 PM »
Any DP if united or other *A carriers rebook onto LH group etc. when flight gets cancelled on reg tickets?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #821 on: February 10, 2024, 12:38:10 PM »
Re the BA downgauge:

Its way easier to turnaround a NB quickly + less crew.
If the demand IS there, they CAN probably add NB flights more easily than WB (or up gauge to a bigger plane...)
Also I'm pretty sure that BA flights to Cyprus are NB

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #822 on: February 10, 2024, 08:04:26 PM »
Is it confirmed that Air France is flying to Israel?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #824 on: February 10, 2024, 09:01:25 PM »
Is it confirmed that Air France is flying to Israel?
People flew with them already, so I would venture to say yes.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #825 on: February 10, 2024, 10:30:26 PM »
Any DP if united or other *A carriers rebook onto LH group etc. when flight gets cancelled on reg tickets?
I got UA to rebook on Swiss after pushing for a supervisor.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #826 on: February 11, 2024, 12:09:53 PM »
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1kqsw8s6
Air Europa starting on the 22nd.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #827 on: February 11, 2024, 01:48:53 PM »
AA cancelled thru Oct.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #828 on: February 12, 2024, 07:17:38 AM »
VS cancelled through sep 4, who are they rebooking on?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #829 on: February 12, 2024, 08:03:19 AM »
VS cancelled through sep 4, who are they rebooking on?
I see the update on their site saying that they've cancelled through sep 4 ( https://help.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/news/travel-alerts/tel-aviv.html ).  The strange thing is that I have a flight booked in May and its not been canceled, at least its not showing up as canceled when I look at the reservation.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #830 on: February 12, 2024, 08:30:20 AM »
I see the update on their site saying that they've cancelled through sep 4 ( https://help.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/news/travel-alerts/tel-aviv.html ).  The strange thing is that I have a flight booked in May and its not been canceled, at least its not showing up as canceled when I look at the reservation.
Not strange it takes time to process all the reservations that are affected

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #831 on: February 12, 2024, 09:19:33 AM »
VS cancelled through sep 4, who are they rebooking on?
Please let us know when you find out.I'm going to call them soon. Will report back.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #832 on: February 12, 2024, 09:37:16 AM »
VS cancelled through sep 4, who are they rebooking on?

Rebooked on LY J

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #833 on: February 12, 2024, 10:17:52 AM »

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #834 on: February 12, 2024, 10:28:48 AM »
Rebooked on LY J
Nice! Cash or points ticket?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #835 on: February 12, 2024, 10:31:38 AM »
Nice! Cash or points ticket?

Original ticket was TLV - LHR - JFK. Booked thru points & companion.

Rebooked the TLV - LHR leg on LY J

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #836 on: February 12, 2024, 10:36:57 AM »
Original ticket was TLV - LHR - JFK. Booked thru points & companion.

Rebooked the TLV - LHR leg on LY J
Had you originally booked before October 15th, or more recently?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #837 on: February 12, 2024, 11:23:21 AM »
Rebooked on LY J
That's amazing. How long did it take? I've been working with them/on hold for about 30 minutes so far. I think the fact that we're 8 people is making it a little more complicated. How many are you?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #838 on: February 12, 2024, 11:30:45 AM »
Just rebooked on LY J, a points ticket I originally booked only 2 weeks ago. Was about a 10 minute phone call for 2 passengers.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #839 on: February 12, 2024, 11:34:53 AM »
They rebooked me. But didn't say which class. I'm assuming not J, especially due to the large group. But I'll see when I get the email confirmation within an hour. I'm just happy to be going!