Category: flights
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Foreign airlines resume Tel Aviv flights after pre-emptive strike
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It was business as usual at Ben Gurion Airport today, with 60,900 passengers expected to pass through on 353 international flights arriving and departing. Yesterday, more than 50,000 passengers passed through the airport, despite Israeli airspace being closed for several hours in the morning due to the Israel Defense Forces’…
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El Al milks monopoly on Tel Aviv – New York flights
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Since the outbreak of war last October, US airlines have dramatically reduced their flights to and from Israel and have now cancelled all of them, leaving El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (level:Ilal) as the sole carrier on the Tel Aviv-New York route. This situation was clearly demonstrated in El Al’s…
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Microsoft stock falls as outage grounds flights, Azure services impacted By Investing.com
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:) experienced an outage of Azure and Office365 services that grounded flights by at least two low-cost airlines in the United States late Thursday, with services still suspended through Friday morning. Microsoft shares fell 1.8% in premarket trading on Friday. Frontier Airlines said its systems were gradually returning to…
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Major U.S. carriers including American, UAL ground flights citing comms issue By Reuters
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Microsoft said early Friday that an outage of its cloud services in the central United States had been resolved after it led to the grounding and cancellation of several flights. Low-cost carriers Frontier Airlines, a unit of Frontier Holdings, Allegiant and Sun Country, have reported disruptions that have affected operations.…
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US airlines cancel over 1,300 flights due to Hurricane Beryl By Reuters
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(Reuters) – U.S. airlines canceled more than 1,300 flights and delayed more than 1,000 on Monday as Hurricane Beryl strengthened and made landfall in Texas. Flight tracking website FlightAware reported a total of 1,361 flights had been canceled and 1,014 flights delayed as of 9:06 a.m. ET. United Airlines topped…
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How overbooked flights can let you travel for free and net you thousands
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This could be a scene from an auction house: A Delta flight from Boston to Rome in September was so fully booked that a flight attendant begged passengers, offering them thousands of dollars and a hotel room, to give up their seats in exchange for a voucher and a later…
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US says seven airlines eligible to apply for new daily Washington flights By Reuters
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Written by David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seven major airlines are eligible to apply for five new daily round-trip flights from Washington’s Reagan National Airport, the U.S. Department of Transportation said on Monday. On May 16, President Joe Biden signed legislation creating new flights at the busy airport in Arlington,…
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Two US airlines resume Israel flights
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On Friday, the American airline Delta Air Lines will resume its flights to and from Israel for the first time since the outbreak of war last October. The airline will operate a daily direct flight from New York’s JFK Airport to Tel Aviv. Two days later, United Airlines will resume…
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Israeli-owned Blue Bird fills vacuum in Tel Aviv flights
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While foreign airlines were delaying resuming flights to Israel, Blue Bird saw the potential and resumed operations at Ben Gurion Airport in February. The Iranian attack in April also failed to deter the Greek-registered, Israeli-owned tanker, partially filling the void left by foreign tankers. Blue Bird currently operates flights from…
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WestJet’s Sunwing deal adds more flights to Latin America, Caribbean
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Article content Canadian travel company WestJet Airlines Ltd. plans to… To increase its presence in Latin America and the Caribbean and offer aircraft with larger seats after purchasing a competitor. WestJet, owned by private equity firm Onex Corp., completed the acquisition last year of low-cost carrier Sunwing Airlines and Sunwing…
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Air Canada suspends Israel flights until August
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Passengers wishing to fly directly between Israel and North America this month can only do so on El Al Israel Airlines. Air Canada has suspended the resumption of its flights to Israel until August 5. Following the Iranian missile attack on Israel last month, the Canadian airline initially suspended its…