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Old Jun 3, 2019, 2:20 am
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Innocent Abroad
 
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Originally Posted by BATLV
it will continue to cater primarily to Jewish VFR and low cost eastern European tourism.
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Originally Posted by Ditto
I thought a part of the reason ETM was built was also to be used as a backup airport to TLV, also are you saying it is not going to increase int'l flight capacity from VDA?
The backup airport to TLV is another (crazy) saga. There are two options one in the vicinity of Haifa and one in the Negev but no solution on the horizon.
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