The Irish airline Ryanair, the largest in Europe in terms of the number of passengers transported, announced on Thursday that it will resume flights to or from Tel Aviv on February 1, interrupted since the Hamas attack on Israel in early October. Ryanair “confirmed (Thursday) that it will resume operations to or from Tel Aviv from Thursday, February 1,” the company said in a statement.
The company acts “in accordance with the current guidelines of the EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) and with the resumption of operations of several other European airlines, including Aegean, Air France, Austrian, Lufthansa and Swiss,” he clarified. The low-cost airline will initially operate a reduced flight schedule on routes between Tel Aviv and Marseille in France, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Memmingen in Germany, Milan in Italy and Vienna in Austria.
Transavia will resume from February 1
The airline Transavia, the low-cost airline of the Air France-KLM group, also announced on Thursday that it will progressively resume its flights between Paris-Orly and Tel Aviv from February 1 “as long as the situation in the Middle East does not deteriorate.” ” For its part, Air France announced on January 9 the upcoming resumption of its service to Tel Aviv, suspended since October 7. Starting January 24, Air France will operate three weekly rotations between Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport, a smaller program than the one that previously existed, that is, two daily connections with major airlines. Airbus A350.
Many other airlines had stopped flying to Israel following deadly Hamas attacks and rocket attacks from Gaza, particularly towards the Tel Aviv region. Lufthansa has since resumed its routes on January 8. The Greek company Aegean has also returned to providing services to Israel.
Source: BFM TV
