Originally Posted by
gordo6
EK planned to fly (Israeli press had new articles about them planning to fly 777s to Israel starting early December), but the signing of the bilateral visa-waiver agreement was delayed, and a new mechanism was enacted in which airlines have to arrange visas for their customers. Implementation of the visa-waiver agreement is now planned for mid-January, so I would assume EK would start flying to TLV shortly thereafter.
You can book already flights with Emirates as they have a Codeshare on the FlyDubai flights. I wouldn't be suprised with we will see Emirates take over these flights and operate to TLV instead of Fly Dubai. Once things are going back to normal Emirates will be very much interested to get as much marketshare as possible of Eastbound traffic to the Indian sub continent, Africa, Asia and Australasia which in order to ensure optimal feeder flights will see them operate at least 1 -2 daily flights. Hwever at this stage demand for connecting traffic is rather low and I am not sure if cargo demand on this route at this stage is already high enough that would require the capacities of a B77W as of yet.