Flights cancelled - strike possible in the coming days/weeks at El Al

[AsherO]

This is nuts. I have business class seats reserved for January and February. I hope they dont change the planes on me. The only way to get them to stop acting like a third world airline is to get the chareidi press which caters to a large part of the consumer base to start writing about these practices

I can't believe they care about Chareidim, they treat them like cr@p. Then again, it's mutual, the Chareidim treat LY like cr@p as well.

[yandmk]

I haven't heard them (please someone correct me if I am wrong) do this on the TLV-JFK-TLV route (and possibly not on any of the 747 routes - EWR-TLV alternates between 747 and 777. Are the any DP about that route being substituted when a 747 was scheduled?) You see this mostly on their secondary long-haul (and possibly short haul) routes that operate a 767 or 777.

Last night's cancelled flight was supposed to be operated by a 747

[ExGingi]

Last night's cancelled flight was supposed to be operated by a 747

So I guess they do cancel 747s, but after all EWR-TLV is secondary to JFK-TLV. Has any of this been happening on that route, and especially their flagship 001 flight?

[yandmk]

So I guess they do cancel 747s, but after all EWR-TLV is secondary to JFK-TLV. Has any of this been happening on that route, and especially their flagship 001 flight?

Yes

[ExGingi]

Yes

If this happens on their 001, I think they will be bleeding passengers and they know it. Their arrogant culture is coming back to roost.

[travel agent]

flight 81 to BKK is delayed from 23:00 to 9:00
& flight 7 to JFK is delayed 3 hours.

[AsherO]

Does israels compensation law cover strikes? This will cost them millions!

[David Smith]

Does israels compensation law cover strikes? This will cost them millions!

It doesn't cover strikes.

[mordechain]

So... Canceling without reprotecting on another airline so that the passenger is stranded... What was that about do - all airlines being less reliable then elal?

[eliraps]

Isn't cancelling without rebooking against DoT rules?

[Cashman]

I can't believe they care about Chareidim, they treat them like cr@p. Then again, it's mutual, the Chareidim treat LY like cr@p as well.

Asher they care about their bottom line. I fly this route around 6 times a year and roughly 50% of passengers are chareideim. I can't imagine a article in the Chareidi weeklys won't awaken them

[avadah]

Asher they care about their bottom line. I fly this route around 6 times a year and roughly 50% of passengers are chareideim. I can't imagine a article in the Chareidi weeklys won't awaken them

+1 they do a nice amount of advertising by the chareidim, they know it's a great market for them.

[David Smith]

Then again, it's mutual, the Chareidim treat LY like cr@p as well.

In what manner? (And please don't say that they make minyanim and attempt not to sit next to those of the opposite gender when they feel it's inappropriate.)

[Emkay]

In what manner? (And please don't say that they make minyanim and attempt not to sit next to those of the opposite gender when they feel it's inappropriate.)

Seriously?!

[travel agent]

updates for today:

LHR is cancelled
BKK is delayed again from 23:00 to 5:00
EWR is delayed from 00:30 to 15:00 (!!!)
JFK (001!!) is delayed from 00:45 to 5:10