Israel’s El Al Airlines to fly 14 weekly flights to Dubai



JERUSALEM:

El Al Israel Airlines will work 14 weekly flights from Tel Aviv to Dubai from Dec. 13, it pronounced on Monday, fasten a handful of carriers rising routes between Israel and a United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Israel and a UAE concluded in Sep to settle tactful relations, violation a longstanding banned and paving a approach for mercantile cooperation.

Subject to regulatory approvals, Israeli dwindle conduit El Al skeleton to work 3 flights a day on Sundays and Thursdays and dual flights on other days of a week. Flights will be on Boeing 737-900 and 787 Dreamliner aircraft, it said.

El Al remarkable that until a mutual visa entrance agreement enters into force between a countries, or until there is another shared solution, Israeli travellers can enter a UAE with a unfamiliar pass that allows entrance to a end and/or accept a current visa before to a flight.

Israel’s borders have for a many partial been sealed to foreigners during a Covid-19 pandemic, with usually Israeli pass holders authorised entry.

Smaller rivals Arkia and Israir have pronounced they devise to start flights to Dubai subsequent month. State-owned Dubai airline flydubai also pronounced it would start twice-daily flights between a UAE’s business heart and Tel Aviv this month.

El Al and Etihad Airways, a United Arab Emirates’ inhabitant airline, final week sealed a understanding to try deeper team-work such as corner codesharing between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv and other destinations.

Etihad has pronounced it intends to start daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv starting on Mar 28 subsequent year.