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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how two Hamas leaders were assassinated early this morning in Iran and Lebanon. This prompted retaliation threats from Iran and caused several airlines to once again suspend service to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV). Delta Air Lines has flights for sale starting in September. American Airlines is being conservative and has removed flights from their system until April 2025. United Airlines has removed nonstop options from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) that were on its schedule altogether.
American Airlines has said in the past that it would restart service in October. This was then pushed to December. Now, it looks like April 2025 is the latest goal that could easily be shifted again. American had been flying daily between New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV).
United Airlines normally operates 14 flights per week from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV). The Chicago-based carrier has removed all nonstop flights for the entirety of its bookable schedule through July 2025.
Delta Airlines flies daily from New York John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK). It has cancelled flights for the past few weeks, but is selling nonstop flights starting on September 2nd. We’ll have to wait to see if these actually take off or if the date is pushed once again. Through all of this, Delta’s codeshare partner, El Al, continues to fly daily.
The US State Department has issued a travel advisory advising Americans in Israel to avoid going within 2.5 miles of the Lebanese and Syrian borders and those planning to travel there to reconsider due to the “unpredictable” security situation. It has further warned of mortar and rocket fire that might take place without warning.
Anthony’s Take: The situation in Israel is heartbreaking and it doesn’t look like a resolution is coming soon. I feel for the families and friends who are separated from their loved ones and the innocent lives that have been lost. We’ll have to wait and see when the US carriers actually restart these flights.
(Image Credits: Alina Vasylieva, American, Delta, and United.)
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Not surprising. The world is waking up to Israel’s aggression.
Not a shock but the State Department warning seems a bit weak. 2.5 miles of the border? Heck, I wouldn’t go within 2.5 miles of the border with Lebanon or Syria in more peaceful times. I think some areas of Israel like Haifa or Nazareth would be fairly safe but Tel Aviv is a big target and the terrorists won’t likely target Jerusalem due to the holy meaning to Muslims at the Al-Aqsa mosque. People like Thomas C who can’t see that Israel was the one that was attacked and is defending itself are short-sighted no matter what your stance is to a two-state situation.
Israel has gone WAY beyond defending itself. You don’t honor the 1200 Israeli lives lost by murdering 40,000 in Gaza, mostly women and children. That is GENOCIDE, committed by Netanyahu and his fascist regime. Stop the killing already!
Yes it’s extremely unfortunate that people don’t understand that the victim here are the ones that were sleeping on October 6th snd murdered amd SA on October 7th while sleeping snd dancing. Sad for the innocent victims but much respect to the israeli ppl for the courage and resilience they have living amongst people who hate them and attempt to annihilate them on the daily. They should stop the invasion of Gaza as soon as each and every one of their hostages are home free and safe from the extremist murderers who control gaza. Free palestine from hamas.