Originally Posted by
Jakebeth
I respect that this is your feeling on the matter. I wonder if you'll feel the same way, though, if LY ever faces extinction in part b/c it doesn't fly a 7 day schedule. I expect most of us think that's 'never going to happen'. But a lot of things were never going to happen, until they did.
EL AL is a privately owned airline. They have already done their calculations, and decided that their future does not involve a 7 day schedule. It is rumoured that when the 'unofficial' religious boycott of EL AL was running recently, they were losing in the region of NIS 1m per day. The increase in passenger numbers would have to be very substantial in order to offset both the loss of religious passengers (many of whom are very frequent flyers on prime routes) and the additional salary costs involved in hiring workers for Shabbat.