Other Middle East and Africa Frequent Flyer Programs - ElAl to get jungle jets!

As published this week in Globes, ElAl are cosidering leasing regional jets (better known as jungle jets) for low occupancy regional routes such as Cyprus, Turkey and Greece. The jets will probably leased with full crews as ElAl has only Boeing qualified pilots.

Do you think that they would use outside crews? Don't they have special security rules about who can be a pilot? Aren't they all AirForce vets?

Amman if I am correct is now served by Arkia or have they stopped? I wonder if they will lease Embraer or Canadair aircraft.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Bretteee:
Amman if I am correct is now served by Arkia or have they stopped? I wonder if they will lease Embraer or Canadair aircraft. </font>

http://www.ben-gurion -airport.co.il/rash-cgi/SCHEDUL2_A.PGM?FIELD=AMM&LOC=%41%4D%4D%41%4E%20%28%51%55%45%45%4E%20%41%4C% 49%41%20%49%4E%54%27%4C%29&LANG=E (http://www.ben-gurion-airport.co.il/rash-cgi/SCHEDUL2_A.PGM?FIELD=AMM&LOC=%41%4D%4D%41%4E%20%28%51%55%45%45%4E%20%41%4C% 49%41%20%49%4E%54%27%4C%29&LANG=E)

Arkia and Royal Jordanian.


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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by flaco:
Do you think that they would use outside crews? Don't they have special security rules about who can be a pilot? Aren't they all AirForce vets?</font>

They did it before - Last year the leased an MD-11 from World Airways for a few months with a full crew.

Interesting that Arkia just has 1 x weekly vs. RJ's with a lot more. I assume RJ get connecting traffic to Asia while Arkia relies only on local traffic which must be negligeable at present.