Urgent| Foreign airlines refuse to return to Israeli airspace

Many foreign airlines refused to return to flying over Israel and resume flights after the failure of the Israeli authorities to amend the flight delay compensation law, as well as their inability to reopen Airport Terminal No. (1).

 

Globus newspaper reported: The Israeli newspaper said that the crisis scene in the aviation industry is renewed despite the announcement of the truce with Hezbollah, noting that a large number of international airlines still refuse to return.

 

She added that " These conditions left the Israeli aviation and tourism sector immersed in a deep crisis, for which there does not seem to be any solution on the horizon.

 

At the same time, air ticket prices remained Higher levels than in recent years, and those wishing to travel between Israel and the United States must either wait for many months to be able to travel, or pay thousands of dollars to obtain a seat on one of the flights.

 

 

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The newspaper stressed that there are many obstacles that stand in the way of the return of foreign airlines, which it called for to be removed before returning to resume its flights to… Israel. 

 

Globes revealed The first obstacle is the call for exemption from paying flight cancellation compensation, noting that many foreign and Israeli airlines are also calling for a temporary exemption from a law that gives travelers the right to obtain compensation when flights are delayed, postponed or cancelled. 

 

These lines launched a campaign to amend the law and abolish compensation, and the campaign gained ground that led to important progress in the form of legislative action in this regard. However, the final draft of the amendment that arrived This week to the "Economic Committee" In the Israeli Knesset, headed by David Bitan (from the Likud Party), talk about it has stopped. 

 

Bitan claims that he does not want to harm consumers, and that it is better to look for Other solutions provide incentives to companies that entice them to return.

 

Globes believes In practice, it is not a matter of reluctance to intervene so as not to harm consumers, but the fact of the matter is that travel options to and from Israel have diminished sharply, which has not only affected the tourism industry, but also affected the level of desire to travel, even in cases of emergency services to maintain overseas business links in various sectors of the economy, such as the high-tech sector.

 

Fees and ticket prices, as is the case in duty-free markets, jump when supply dwindles. With the high demand for travel to outside. The newspaper gives an example of this with the Irish airline “Ryan Air”. Low-cost airlines, which had already resumed flights to Israel at an early stage of the war, but stopped their flights as soon as escalation broke out on the northern front, and refused to return without amending the “Tibi Law”. 

 

The airlines recently revealed that they were forced to pay 4 million euros in compensation to passengers.

 

The newspaper moves to the second hurdle, Confirming that the Irish airline “Ryanair” I refused to return not because of the compensation law alone, but the closure of Terminal 1 at Ben Gurion Airport had repercussions on all low-cost airlines because the landing fees in that lounge are lower than those in Terminal 3 used by traditional airlines. 

 

Globes addresses To the third obstacle, which is embodied in the quarrels and internal disputes between the authorities concerned with aviation, finance, and tourism, noting that to address the issue of low-cost aviation and the airport terminal (1), Knesset member Bitan suggested that terminal (3) reduce its fees on low-cost airlines to reach the same levels. Which she used to pay in hall (1). But the Ministry of Finance and the Israeli Airports Authority seem reluctant to take on this issue.

 

For his part, the director of the “Israel Airports Authority”, General Sharon Kedmi, stated before the Economic Committee in the Knesset His organization has a negative deficit in its financial flows amounting to 1.2 billion shekels and operational losses amounting to 150 million shekels. 

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