2023-10-09 15:53:00
“Prevent crews from sleeping on site”
But the possibilities are very limited. Ryanair is at the time of writing the only airline still offering direct flights to Israel from Belgium. If the Irish company finally explains to us that it has canceled its operations to the country this Tuesday and Wednesday, the other flights of the week remain planned. As of Saturday, Brussels Airlines had canceled all its flights to Tel Aviv given the war situation the country is currently experiencing. The Belgian company has already extended these cancellations until this Saturday, October 14 inclusive. “We are following the directives of our parent company Lufthansa which finds the situation too unstable,” explains spokesperson Joëlle Neeb. Depending on how the situation evolves, Brussels Airlines could resume some of its flights on October 15. “But we will not resume flights arriving in the evening because we want to avoid crews sleeping on site.” Although Tel Aviv airport remains operational, bomb threats are constant. We understand that companies still operating there would have difficulty finding willing personnel to operate flights to Israel in these tense circumstances.
The future Antwerp-Tel Aviv connection called into question by Tui?
An air carrier is an exception. This is the Israeli company El AI. The company, which left Zaventem airport last year, has even decided to increase some of its flights between Europe and Israel. Enough to shake up the flight schedule of the national carrier. “We could cancel flights to destinations where there are few Israelis, in order to help Israelis elsewhere,” explained an El Al spokesperson to AFP. Finally, note that certain states, such as Poland, have organized repatriation flights for their nationals. “We are ready to do the same if the Belgian State asks us to do so,” says Brussels Airlines. For its part, Tui, which is due to begin its first flights between Antwerp and Tel Aviv next December, will make a decision “in the coming weeks” on the future of this connection.
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