Originally Posted by
joshwex90
Jewish people is very little of travel to/from Israel. From a religious tourism perspective alone, there's also Christian and Muslim tourists. Factor in non-religious tourism, historical tourism, medical tourism, biz travelers, etc.
And of course travelers the other way around. With all the talk of tech, lost is that Tel Aviv and San Francisco are 2 of the biggest gay capitals of the world. Don't know how much travel that pushes, but an interesting fact nonetheless.
The gay tourism to TLV obviously won't fill a flight but its not insubstantial either. Jewish tourism won't fill a flight either,but it contributes. This flight was added for the tech/biotech industry, the rest of the traffic fills out of the plane.
Originally Posted by
joshwex90
Traffic isn't based on size of Jewish community alone. YYZ sustains LY and AC (who upgauged) while being a smaller overall Jewish community than SF.
LY also has major routes to BKK with their 744 filling every seat virtually every day, with basically no Jewish community to speak of in BKK.
AC cut the frequencies its not 7x, and LY is 3-4x/week, but it is a 788.. The YYZ jewish community is on balance more religious than SFO...