Saudi Arabia Permits Air India to Overfly to Israel
Mar 7, 2018, 9:19 am
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Mar 7, 2018, 10:34 am
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Mar 7, 2018, 11:15 am
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Air India Delhi-TLV flights are now bookable on the Air India website Welcome to Air India (For some reason only on airindia.in and not on airindia.com)
Flights start March 22nd.
Sample flight TLV-Delhi March 22-25 in Economy is $641
Sample flight Delhi-TLV March 22-25 in Economy is 35088INR ($540 USD)
Sample flight TLV-Delhi March 22-25 in Business is $2091
Sample flight Delhi-TLV March 22-25 in Business is 127477INR ($1950 USD)
Flights start March 22nd.
Sample flight TLV-Delhi March 22-25 in Economy is $641
Sample flight Delhi-TLV March 22-25 in Economy is 35088INR ($540 USD)
Sample flight TLV-Delhi March 22-25 in Business is $2091
Sample flight Delhi-TLV March 22-25 in Business is 127477INR ($1950 USD)
The Delhi-TLV flight shows a duration of 6Hrs 25 minutes and the TLV-Delhi flight is 7Hrs 15 minutes
Mar 7, 2018, 9:52 pm
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Mar 7, 2018, 11:23 pm
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Otherwise, this thread is only about the topic of the flights themselves.
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Mar 8, 2018, 1:31 am
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On the legal and economic dimensions, the closure of airspace to commercial aviation originating in India, Israel or anywhere else was never justifiable. It will require some pressure, but El Al will get permission to overfly as well.
Last edited by yosithezet; Mar 8, 2018 at 1:56 am Reason: Removed OT comment
Mar 8, 2018, 1:36 am
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Mar 11, 2018, 1:57 am
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Less likely to happen soon based on this though. Not to get too political, but Saudi Arabia and Israel need each more nowadays than Malaysia or Indonesia do, and India is more important to Saudi Arabia than Singapore is as a single economy.
Mar 11, 2018, 8:35 am
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Mar 11, 2018, 10:00 am
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Not so sure about it. HKG-DOH average flight time is 9:30 hours. HKG-TLV average flight time is 11:30 hours. Consider it is at about 2 hours DOH-TLV. Current routing is actually faster than overflying KSA...