Almost two days without getting off the plane: El Al takes a direct rescue flight to the farthest destination ever to fly an Israeli airline - Melbourne, Australia

40 hours without getting off the plane: El Al will operate an Israeli rescue flight from Melbourne Australia to Israel. This is the longest and most complex flight in the history of the company, and will cost $ 2,480.

The flight from Melbourne to Tel Aviv is expected to take almost 18 hours and the flight to Melbourne will be shorter. EL AL crews will not be allowed to enter Australia and rest after the flight, which means that all crews will spend almost 40 hours on the plane and will require several flight attendants and pilots to operate the complex flight. Just recently, El Al broke its longest flight record when it returned more than a thousand Israelis from Peru.

Last week, El Al first operated a flight to Australia, but to Perth, which is much closer to Israel. Melbourne is at the far end, which requires a few more hours of flight to cross Australia. The flight is expected to have about three hundred Israelis, many of whom live in Australia, but as a result choose to return to Israel.

El Al was scheduled to fly to Australia in April as part of a regular state line. Travelers who have already purchased tickets for this flight will be able to convert them and return to the country on an El Al flight departing this Thursday at 10pm from Melbourne.

One of the biggest challenges for EL AL is that it is a plane full of passengers and their equipment that is supposed to go the longest distance an EL AL plane and an Israeli aircraft ever travel. All crew members, a few dozen in number, are currently unclear exactly how many, will have to move the entire flight back and forth without getting off the plane, a very big challenge for EL AL personnel.

Another interesting fact is that the person who asked Al to take the flight is Foreign Minister Israel Katz. Katz is reportedly one of the candidates for the next Knesset as Finance Minister. If that happens, it will be the one that determines the future of Israeli aviation and will decide whether there will be government support for El Al, Arkia and Ishir.