All incoming and outgoing foreign flights will be cut off due to the war between Israel and Israel.
Increased number of national flag carriers for returning citizens to 4 airports including New York and Athens
Foreign media outlets, including Xinhua News Agency, citing Israeli media, reported that the Israeli government announced on the 9th (local time) emergency measures in case foreign airline flights to Israel are completely cut off due to the war between Israel and the Hamas armed faction. did.
Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev announced on this day a plan to quickly return Israeli citizens who were planning to return home on foreign flights if their flights are canceled.
According to this emergency plan, four airports around the world, including New York, Frankfurt, Athens, and Dubai, will be designated as hub airports for Israeli citizens wishing to return home, and the number of Israeli airlines’ passenger planes will be greatly increased to transport them.
Accordingly, Israeli airlines dispatched more than 20 additional flights into the country, and more than 100,000 people have returned home since the war against Hamas began on the 7th, the Israeli Ministry of Transport said.
The Minister of Transportation ordered Ramon Airport in Eilat, a resort city in southern Israel, to be prepared as the arrival airport for incoming international passenger flights.
However, Minister Regev requested that Israeli citizens who are currently planning to leave the country should reconsider their departure considering the difficulty of returning home later.
At the same time, he said that since the start of the war on the 7th, only some of the foreign flights to Israel have been canceled.
However, according to the BBC on the 8th, airlines including American Airlines, Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates, and Ryanair canceled flights to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport.
However, domestic airlines, including Israel’s national airline El Al, have not suspended flights connecting to Eilat International Airport, a southern resort area, so returning citizens who arrive there can return home using domestic flights.
Source: Donga
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