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Airlines cancel flights to Israel (Original Post)
malaise
Jul 2014
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MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)1. Makes sense after the MH17 horror. n/t
alsame
(7,784 posts)2. Foreign airlines just announced:
Foreign airlines with safety concerns have also canceled flights to Israel. These include:
Air France
Lufthansa
Germanwings
Austrian Airlines
Swiss International Air Lines
Air Canada
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2014/07/22/airline-ban-suspend-flights-israel/12999389/
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)3. What's missing now is an Icelandic volcano erupting/nt
Coventina
(27,169 posts)4. Just now?!?!?
Should have been done days ago.
But then, I'm scared to fly as it is.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)5. Kind of a sly way of boycotting war monger states n/t
malaise
(269,157 posts)6. Yep particularly when they were begging you not to do it
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-gaza-conflict-2014/1.606655
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Israel has been in touch with the United States, Russia and international aviation authorities over the past two weeks in an effort to prevent them from canceling flights to Israel amid an escalation in fighting with the Gaza Strip.
An internal Civil Aviation Authority document reveals that the country is taking pains to avoid flight cancelations, despite rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel and the Israel Defense Forces operation in the Strip.
The document, signed by CAA Director General Giora Romm, describes what has been happening behind the scenes:
The Civil Aviation Authority has been in contact with international aviation bodies, it says, For example, it has been in ongoing contact with the upper echelon of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration - the FAA - and with Russia, via the Russian transportation minister.
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Israel has been in touch with the United States, Russia and international aviation authorities over the past two weeks in an effort to prevent them from canceling flights to Israel amid an escalation in fighting with the Gaza Strip.
An internal Civil Aviation Authority document reveals that the country is taking pains to avoid flight cancelations, despite rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel and the Israel Defense Forces operation in the Strip.
The document, signed by CAA Director General Giora Romm, describes what has been happening behind the scenes:
The Civil Aviation Authority has been in contact with international aviation bodies, it says, For example, it has been in ongoing contact with the upper echelon of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration - the FAA - and with Russia, via the Russian transportation minister.
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alsame
(7,784 posts)7. Bibi asks Kerry to
malaise
(269,157 posts)10. Fugg Bibi
When the economy starts to bite, the people of Israel will remove that war criminal asap.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)8. Smart idea. N/T