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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) NO ONE!!!

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)
« Last edited by yfr bachur on June 18, 2025, 11:07:40 AM »

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #860 on: February 15, 2024, 10:24:38 AM »
I had a KLM/Delta flight that has a misconnect due to the KLM schedule change. Delta refuses to rebook nonstop.
Have the same. Keep us posted if anything works out.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #861 on: February 15, 2024, 10:26:25 AM »
Can i book a DL flight to JFK-AMS, book a LY AMS TLV and have them linked so i dont have to transfer my bags?
You can’t link the reservations, but you can ask the check in agent to check your bags all the way. YMMV.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #862 on: February 18, 2024, 01:11:46 PM »
I had a KLM/Delta flight that has a misconnect due to the KLM schedule change. Delta refuses to rebook nonstop.
Had the same thing with a flight booked through Expedia. DL wouldn’t do anything, Expedia was able to rebook on LY direct.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #863 on: February 18, 2024, 07:13:29 PM »
Had the same thing with a flight booked through Expedia. DL wouldn’t do anything, Expedia was able to rebook on LY direct.

Chatted with Delta and they finally rebooked to LY nonstop.
PM me for a good deal on flights

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #864 on: February 19, 2024, 03:11:47 PM »
Any idea if United will actually resume on March 1?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #865 on: February 19, 2024, 04:01:22 PM »
Any idea if United will actually resume on March 1?
Don't think anyone knows the answer.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #866 on: February 19, 2024, 04:04:10 PM »
Any idea if United will actually resume on March 1?

First flight for sale is actually March 4, but question remains.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #867 on: February 19, 2024, 05:12:47 PM »
First flight for sale is actually March 4, but question remains.
I see March 2.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #868 on: February 19, 2024, 05:16:07 PM »
I see March 2.

you are right, this is next week, and they still don't know?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #869 on: February 19, 2024, 05:17:45 PM »
you are right, this is next week, and they still don't know?
I asked and they got mad at me for asking. :P

They are really burning their bridges with these late cancels.
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 #870 on: February 19, 2024, 05:18:36 PM »
I asked and they got mad at me for asking. :P

They are really burning their bridges with these late cancels.
No burning no bridges, nobody is booking these flights.
Unless you mean the PR bridges.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #871 on: February 19, 2024, 05:22:25 PM »
No burning no bridges, nobody is booking these flights.
Unless you mean the PR bridges.

sure for bookings that still have open returns that are waiting for the flights to be cancelled :P

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #872 on: February 19, 2024, 05:41:54 PM »
No burning no bridges, nobody is booking these flights.
Unless you mean the PR bridges.
Strangely enough, when you pull up a seat chart on these flights, they are basically empty except for Business. Business is over 50% booked. Which makes this even stranger, as they are ticking off good customers.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #873 on: February 19, 2024, 05:46:10 PM »
Tuesday is fully booked, of fully blocked? Weird.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #874 on: February 19, 2024, 07:27:43 PM »

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #875 on: February 20, 2024, 01:58:54 AM »
LH group will add much more flights

https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1654245?utm_source=&utm_medium=ticker&utm_campaign=outer_ticker

any details?



Also AF will add a 5th weekly flight starting March 3rd

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #876 on: February 20, 2024, 05:52:29 AM »
I asked and they got mad at me for asking. :P

They are really burning their bridges with these late cancels.
Looks like they are not selling UA91 till may 4, and UA90 till may 3

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #877 on: February 20, 2024, 08:02:01 AM »
KLM restarting daily flights to AMS from Apr 1

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #878 on: February 20, 2024, 08:05:17 AM »
KLM restarting daily flights to AMS from Apr 1
With a technical stop in LCA on the way to TLV.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #879 on: February 20, 2024, 08:06:36 AM »
Looks like KLM is also making a technical LCA stop on the way to TLV.
You're right.
I'm surprised AF doesn't mind flying direct.