Originally Posted by
formeraa
No, it sounds like a training issue on El Al's part. Their agents were probably not aware of "no-so-tiny-anymore" AS.
While this was likely the case, I experienced the same with LAN after it had been an AS partner for well over a decade, to the point of a rude LIM gate agent snapping at me for a simple request to add the AS #, which wasn't showing on the BP.