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  • Flying in and out of Israel at the moment

    From Aviation HQ@2:292/854 to All on Thursday, October 12, 2023 14:31:38
    The Israeli airline El Al will fly planes from New York and Bangkok on Saturday, on the Jewish day of rest, the Sabbath, to pick up reservists. El Al has not flown on the Sabbath since 1982 based on Jewish religious regulations. But due to the war with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and occupied territories, religious leaders have made an exception and authorized the additional flights.

    Israel has called up more than 360,000 reservists after fighters from the Hamas movement broke out of the fenced-off Gaza Strip on Saturday and caused massacres in the area. They have also fired thousands of rockets into Israel. Israel blocks and bombs the densely populated Gaza Strip and prepares for a land attack.

    El Al is one of the few airlines that still flies to and from Israel. Almost all European airlines have suspended flight operations as a precaution. In the past 24 hours, Emirates, Virgin Atlantic and British Airways also announced their termination. Due to the lack of scheduled flights, the Netherlands is now repatriating citizens with NATO military Airbus A330 MRTTs. The planes of El Al and other Israeli companies have an anti-missile system on board.

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  • From Charles Blackburn@1:135/395 to Aviation HQ on Friday, October 13, 2023 11:21:00
    On Thu Oct 12 14:31:00 2023, Aviation HQ wrote to All <=-

    The Israeli airline El Al will fly planes from New York and Bangkok on Saturday, on the Jewish day of rest, the Sabbath, to pick up reservists. El Al has not flown on the Sabbath since 1982 based on Jewish religious regulations. But due to the war with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and occupied territories, religious leaders have made an exception and authorized the additional flights.

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    interesting. I wonder if they would be open (as i would assume the planes would be empty outbound) to picking up a shedload of foreigners, US, Brit etc that would LOVE to get out of the area? they could at least drop them off in NY or B.K and then they would be free to make their own way to where they need to go ?

    Charlie
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