United Airways is restarting service from New York and Newark, New Jersey, to Tel Aviv subsequent month, and says it’s “the first U.S. airline to resume service this year.”
The announcement comes on the identical day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is assembly with President Donald Trump on the White Home.
United’s each day flights to Israel resume on March 15, “with a second daily flight planned to begin March 29,” a press launch from the airline mentioned.
“This resumption follows a detailed assessment of operational considerations for the region and close work with the unions who represent our flight attendants and pilots,” the discharge added.
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United Airways Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner takes off from Los Angeles Worldwide Airport on Jan. 24, 2025. ( AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The flights between the U.S. and Israel might be on Boeing 787-10s, United mentioned.
The airline says passengers may connect with Tel Aviv by companions like Lufthansa Group airways, and can consider restoring further flights “based on demand.”
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Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Worldwide Airport, heart, and surrounding city areas in Lod, central Israel, on April 5, 2024. (Roy Issa/AFP through / Getty Pictures)
The airline didn’t instantly reply to a FOX Enterprise request for extra info.
American Airways’ flights to Tel Aviv have been halted till September, in response to The Occasions of Israel. The media outlet reported in January that Delta introduced it might resume companies to the Israeli metropolis on April 1.
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A United Airways airplane passes by two El Al airplanes after arriving at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport on Dec. 2, 2023, in New Jersey. (Gary Hershorn / Getty Pictures)
The U.S. airline trade’s suspension of all direct flights to Israel was within the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist assaults.
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In contrast to in 2014, when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) directed all U.S. carriers to droop flights to Israel as a result of security issues amid rocket fireplace towards Tel Aviv, American, Delta and United selected their very own to cease all direct flights from the U.S. to Israel because the Oct. 7, 2023, assaults, absent of an order by the FAA.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., took the airways to activity for the suspensions, saying in November that it had “the practical effect of a boycott.”
