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Old Jan 7, 2010 | 4:55 pm
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AFAIK El Al is not allowed to fly over Saudi Arabia (and some other Arab countries) and has to go around when it does its TLV-BOM route. For comparison, MS does CAI-BOM with a scheduled time of 5h30 whereas TLV-BOM is scheduled for 7h45. CAI-BOM is just over 200 miles longer.

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