Montreal based Air Transat started selling twice weekly nonstop service from Montreal to Tel Aviv earlier this year. It will fly an A330 from Montreal to Tel Aviv on Sundays and Wednesdays from June 18th until October 29th and from Tel Aviv to Montreal on Mondays and Thursdays from June 19th until October 30th.
Today Air Canada has announced that they too will fly an A330 nonstop from Montreal to Tel Aviv on Sundays and Thursdays and from Tel Aviv to Montreal on Mondays and Fridays from June 22nd until October 16th.
Tickets will go on sale this Wednesday.
The Montreal-Tel Aviv flight departs at 6:35pm and arrives 12:15pm the next day. The Tel Aviv-Montreal flight departs at 1:55pm and arrives 6:20pm the same day.
That’s great news for Canadians and Star Alliance fans. It’s just unfortunate that they chose to operate one of the 2 weekly frequencies on Thursday/Friday, which are not very useful for Orthodox Jews. The Thursday outbound flight allows arrivals into Tel Aviv with enough time for Shabbos, but many people would prefer a larger margin for error in case of delays. The Friday return flight arrives too close to Shabbos in Montreal.
Hopefully we’ll see some nice price wars between Air Canada and Air Transat.
Air Canada also announced that their 787 operated Toronto-Tel Aviv route will move to year-round daily service starting this summer.
For those keeping score at home that means that flights between North America and Tel Aviv in the summer/fall of 2017 should look like:
Boston: 3 weekly flights on El Al.
JFK: 7 weekly flights on Delta, 16 weekly flights on El Al.
Los Angeles: 5 weekly flights on El Al.
Miami: Unknown number (Likely between 3-6) of weekly flights on El Al starting Q3.
Montreal: 2 weekly flights on Air Canada, 2 weekly flights on Air Transat.
Newark: 14 weekly flights on United, 6 weekly flights on El Al.
San Francisco: 7 weekly flights on United.
Toronto: 7 weekly flights on Air Canada, 5 weekly flights on El Al.
Memo to El Al or United: We’re all waiting for you to announced Chicago-Tel Aviv service already…
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I would say that any ELAL schedule can’t be counted, as recent experience shows that their schedule is “flexible”.
Maybe someone with more knowledge can advise. When would be the best time to book NYC-TLV-NYC trip for end of June. Is it better to lock it up right now at current priced b/c they will only increase, etc. or there is a chance they usually go down as the date approaches closer?
Thank you in advance.
@ExGingi:
Lol, fair enough.
@Alex:
Typically flight are cheapest 3-7 weeks in advance.
Dan i would love to travel to israel from nyc the week of february 26. I keep checking for a very cheap rate. If abything comes your way please share. Your amazing as always. Thank you
until Elal has actual new planes , i wouldn’t bank on anything. you cant keep expanding the flights without new aircraft
@mia flyer:
They should have them later this year, hence the Miami announcement.
please let me know when i can book a flight to tel aviv from ny from the end of june to mid july i am looking everyday and cannot find anything normal everything is so expensive please tell me if there is some deal soon thank you
Do you have any influence in getting a United flight from BWI direct to Israel? Chicago does not help East Coasters, especially since we lost our direct flight from Philadelphia.
@Cindy Zitelman:
Not going to happen.
@Dan Thank you very much for your comment.
At the moment my dates come out to USD 988pp on ElAL. That pretty reasonable for end of June isnt it? Or from your past years of experience you think it can be significantly better?
Many thanks in advance.
@Ale:
Sounds reasonable to me, but anything is possible.
Award tickets are available to book on United stating this message: Subject to receive of Government operating authority
I checked 9/17/17