2023-10-07 18:09:26
Brussels Airlines and TUI Belgium cancel planned flights to Tel Aviv. Foreign Affairs recommends that Belgians present on site not go out.
Following the offensive launched by the armed wing of Hamas on Israel, Brussels Airlines decided in close collaboration with the Lufthansa group to suspend all its flights to Tel Aviv until Monday October 9 inclusive. Brussels Airlines justifies its decision given the current situation in Israel “very unpredictable”. The company is looking for solutions to reschedule the trips of impacted passengers as quickly as possible, “but safety always remains a top priority,” she communicates.
Brussels Airlines and the Lufthansa group finally declare that they are ready to cooperate with the authorities to organize repatriations or relief flights in case they ask.
The tour operator TUI Belgium will not send travelers to Tel Aviv until October 21. Tel Aviv is the only destination it serves in Israel. Currently, the organizer does not have any Belgian tourists there.
Abroad too, companies are canceling their connections with Israel. Air France announced that it would suspend its service to Tel Aviv “until further notice”. Transavia“low cost” of the Air France-KLM group, canceled a Paris-Tel Aviv flight on Saturday evening and is offering travel postponements to and from Israel for passengers who wish.
The German group Lufthansa maintains only one flight to Frankfurt, and “all other Lufthansa flights to and from Tel Aviv have been canceled” on Saturday, according to the spokesperson.
Belgians in Israel
The Belgian Embassy in Israel sent a message to all Belgians who registered in “Travellers Online” and also broadcast a message on its social networks. “Belgians on site are asked not to go out, to follow the instructions of the local authorities and to follow the situation via the media,” indicates Foreign Affairs. “Our embassy, as well as our services in Brussels, remain mobilized.”
“There are approximately 10,000 Belgians registered in the consular registers of the Belgian embassy in Tel Aviv competent for Israel and approximately 3,000 Belgians registered in the consular registers of the Belgian Consulate General in Jerusalem competent for Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territory, made up of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip”, according to the spokesperson for the FPS Foreign Affairs. Most of them have dual nationality (Belgian-Israeli or Belgian-Palestinian) and have lived “on site for a long time”, specifies the latter who adds that approximately “approximately 140 Belgians passing through” have registered on the Travelers Online platform.
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