Things are moving quickly in the Middle East!
The stunning news last month was the Israel-UAE peace deal, quickly followed up with an El Al flight to Abu Dhabi. That was the first commercial Israeli flight ever to fly over Saudi airspace and it came with the announcement that Saudi Arabia would allow Israeli flights to use their airspace to fly to the UAE.
I joked that Iran should win the Nobel peace prize, but President Trump has been nominated for the honor today.
And now comes the news via Jared Kushner that Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will allow Israeli flights to use their airspace no matter where they are flying to!
#BREAKING: Jared Kushner: Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have agreed to open airspace to all flights east. (meaning, Israeli companies wand others ill be able to fly from Israel to Asia and significantly shorten the time)
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) September 9, 2020
This is amazing news for Israeli airlines, which can now fly to many destinations to the east that were previously impossible to profitably operate due to airspace restrictions. It will also shave travel time off of existing destinations.
Who says 2020 is all bad news? I can’t wait to find out what great news will come out of the Middle East next!
This is certainly great news for El Al and their network planners. The only question is when will they reopen?
HT: chff
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Do we want to fly over Saudi Arabia though?
El Al and Israel may need to work out their dispute with Boeing over the 787 Sky Shield…
Sure do! Don’t worry the boring Saudi dessert view won’t be scene from 30K foot elevation! 🙂
The Saudi wouldn’t give overfly rights just to shoot Rosen the plane
… And besides, how are they supposed to know which plane Rosen is on, anyway?
Darn spell check
Incredible news!!
How many hours I have wasted on LY flights going around KSA throughout the years
Signs of Moshiach?
How so ?
No HT for me?!? Haha!!!
Awesome! Trump 2020
Agreed. #KAG
Sounds like good news for MEL-TLV that was supposed to be tested in April but got cancelled…
NY/ East Coast & Europe to Asia Via TLV?
IF Elal get their act together could be a huge game changer!
I thought they announced this last week? Wasn’t Israair planning their flight to UAE based on this?
Read the post?
First Israeli flight ever to fly over Saudi airspace? I think not 🙂
#OperationOpera
We know that someone like Trump wont ever actually win the peace prize. Only someone that really deserves it like Yaser Arafat for example….
Or Barack O’Beheima
Maybe it will pull El Al out of bankruptcy!
Abu Dhabi has also directed all hotels to start offering kosher food.
Incredible
Dan, Is this this such a big gain if they still can’t fly over Oman & Yemen ?
I feel it’s not so safe flying between Qatar & Iran over the Persian Gulf & Gulf of Oman
In other words what route would they take to East, BOM, HKG, MEL, etc ???
Why do you think that people are fighting over El Al? There is a huge market opportunity opening.
Dan, any new updates on El Al/Qantas flying TLV/MEL? Nonstop.