Ben Gurion Airport is operated mainly by Israeli airlines, alongside a few foreign airlines. The number of passengers is dropping significantly and hovering around 8,000 departing from Israel each day, a decrease of about 80% from normal days.
In recent days, following an iron sword war, Israel's largest airline, El Al, decided to transfer four Boeing 737s to Ramon Airport. The planes are parked at the airport and at this stage do not operate flights from Ramon and Ramon, but they are there in case of emergency and in a situation in which it will be difficult to operate flights from Ben Gurion Airport to Ben Gurion Airport.
Ramon Airport, Photo: Yehuda Ben Yattach
It is important to emphasize that as of now, there is no warning of such a situation, there is no expectation of the closure of Ben Gurion Airport or disruption to the limited flight schedule currently managed there. However, the airline decided to take measures that would allow a certain type of activity to continue, even if such a case occurs later in the fighting.
Arkia and Israir have not yet taken similar steps. The two airlines together have about ten planes, less than a quarter of El Al's fleet of about 45 planes, enabling it to transfer planes to Ramon and continue the routine operations of operating flights from Ben Gurion Airport.
Arkia and Israir are not operating in the same way as of now, Photo: Yehuda Ben Yattach
The only foreign airlines currently operating in Israel are Red Wings, Hainan, Etihad, Fly Dubai, Blue Bird and TUS Airways, which operate flights to the Greek islands, Cyprus, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Shenzhen in China and Russian destinations, among others. As of now, all other foreign airlines have already extended cancellations from Israel and Israel and it is unclear when they will return to Israel.
Some airlines, such as Cathay Pacific, have cancelled all flights to and from Israel until the end of 2023. Other airlines such as Spanish Iberia canceled their flights until the end of the month and November, and there are companies that assess the situation every few days, but as of now, no new airlines are expected to return to Israel in the coming days.
El Al said: EL AL is conducting an ongoing assessment of the situation with the authorized security and aviation agencies and, in accordance with operational and operational considerations, is changing the deployment of the aircraft.
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