El Al to double weekly Tel Aviv-Cairo flights
Mar 11, 2009, 6:33 am
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El Al to double weekly Tel Aviv-Cairo flights
El Al to double weekly Tel Aviv-Cairo flights
I was surprised to see this being that El Al wanted to ditch the route entirely in the past.
El Al said that beginning May 2, it will fly four flights a week to the Egyptian capital instead of two.
Mar 11, 2009, 7:21 am
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JERUSALEM, March 11 (Reuters) - Israeli flag carrier El Al (ELAL.TA) said on Wednesday it was doubling the number of weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Cairo due to strong demand from tourists.
Mar 16, 2009, 12:33 am
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I was sure someone got confused here, as April fools day is in 3 weeks time ... but after I looked here (in Hebrew), it says the tourists are actually foreign pilgrim groups that want to add Cairo and Egypt to their trips to the holy land.
Mar 16, 2009, 12:51 am
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Could there be a scheduled weekly flight between the countries if there were restrictions to visit one with stamp from the other? If so, who would fly the route? - there are not much Egyptians visiting Israel ...
The main idea behind the Hebrew article was explained in my previous post. The TLV-CAI route was never stopped by LY although it was announced to be so it was not "resumed" either.
The main idea behind the Hebrew article was explained in my previous post. The TLV-CAI route was never stopped by LY although it was announced to be so it was not "resumed" either.