Originally Posted by
gordo6
NRT or HND
Tokyo would be nice but is there enough O&D. Israle would have to work on the tourist aspect in conjunction with LY to woo the Japanese into coming. Currently there don't seem to be too many Japanese tourists in E"Y. Can't speak about business travel though.
Originally Posted by
Houminer
IST and break the monopoly by THY
I think LY are more likely to start a new route where they would have a monopoly.
Originally Posted by
damaxer91
SYD or SIN
SYD and SIN both have a similar O&D problem. In addition, anywhere SE involves a big detour. Hence I don't think LY could currently handle SYD anyway.
Originally Posted by
LatusElAl
MIA
Makes zero sense to me that there is no service to this significant US gateway which also happens to have an enormous Jewish community (all over South Florida) and a tremendous number of Israelis as well.
MIA/ORD have got to be on the tabs next. But the FAA rating doesn't help.
Originally Posted by
clubman
MAN - Not that I would gain anything from it but I strongly believe there is a case for them to reinstate the route.
Jet2 do seem to be doing pretty well there. It's proximity to LON must be a factor for LY's decision, but it would still shave off 3 hours each way for any MAN pax.
Originally Posted by
clubman
LCA - Always chose LY on my trips there.
Can LY make it work to LCA against two CY and one IZ (IIRC) flights?
Originally Posted by
yyzzrh
My own take;
BSL
YUL
I have to agree about MIA, though.
BSL's not going to happen with ZRH and GVA already strongly served. And YUL is too close to YYZ and NYC. Only possibility is as an add-on like
gordo6 suggests.
Originally Posted by
mkilmo
BOS (assuming Israel would become cat I) or SFO (both are good destinations for lots of Israeli travel, and both are big airports with lots of connections).
BOS is to close to NYC. I don't think SFO could work for a similar reason. The alternative connection options are too plentiful from SFO.
Originally Posted by
mkilmo
TPE (just because I want a direct flight there, not because it would make sense from LY's point).
TPE
Originally Posted by
gordo6
Considering the fact that LY aircrafts wait a long time in JFK/EWR/YYZ before their return to TLV, there may be TLV-JFK/YYZ-MIA/SFO or TLV-JFK/EWR-BOS/ORD flights.
I know you mean as a continuation from TLV, but do LY have 5th freedom rights in the US of A?
Originally Posted by
gordo6
I would also like to see LY flying B757s to the US as TLV-DUB/Shannon-US for US immigrations in Ireland (hopefully with newer business class seats).
That's a very interesting idea. However, it would be a lot less popular on the return, unless Israel set up pre-clearance in DUB/SNN as well (which I don't see happening).
Originally Posted by
gordo6
I would also like them to start PVG (maybe as TLV-PEK-PVG).
I could see PVG. It is currently really difficult to get there easily, and the LY/CA (?) option isn't particularly palatable. With good partnership in PVG, they could really give it the potential to work.
One interesting possibility I can thinkof is MEX. Tat would really open up Latin America, the Carribean and various Mexican tourist destinations. But again, LY would need a strong partner there.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see...