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Old Sep 6, 2020 | 8:36 am
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As I was expecting, given what I know of the intricacies of the region.

Oman is already ok with Israeli planes going over, so it's just to be formalized for future flight operations. Qatar won't want to be the odd person out, whether Israel feels comfortable sending Israeli flights over Qatar or not, and will do the same as the UAE if Israel goes for it. Kuwait? I wouldn't be surprised if they go slower than the remaining GCC states to open to Israeli flights, but they are also likely to be least relevant -- among the GCC -- to LY and other Israeli flights for one or more reason.

A GCC country being open to Israeli flights in one or more way is very different than the GCC country being commercially viable for LY to have passenger flights serving the country. Code-sharing on Emirati flagged flights coming in the future for LY? Seems commercially more viable than LY passenger flights to the GCC countries.
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