General Lee
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Apparently Delta will announce daily nonstop 777 service from ATL to Tel Aviv, Israel on October 6th. The new service will start in early 2006, and will be used to connect the SE and South America to Tel Aviv.
Here is the artice that was on Airliners.net.
Delta resuming flights to Israel after five-year hiatus
27.9.2005 | 17:04
Irit Rosenblum
After a five-year hiatus, Delta is resuming flights to Israel, after negotiations between Tourism Ministry Avraham Hirchson and the airline's management. Its decision adds 100,000 seats a year on flights to Tel Aviv.
Official notice of the resumption will be released only on October 6 at a press conference in Atlanta, in Hirchson's presence.
Delta is operating under the court's protection from creditors, but the injunction does not bar it from expanding its operations. If anything it is in the airline's interest to demonstrate that it is adding lines, to increase income.
It will apparently be inaugurating a daily Atlanta-Tel Aviv line in April 2006, and can be expected to significantly increase the traffic of evangelical tourism from the so-called Bible Belt.
The Tourism Ministry has been actively encouraging evangelical tourism and is mulling the establishment of an evangelical center on the shores of the inland Sea of Galilee.
Delta will be using Boeing 777s on the route, each jet with 268 seats. Its fleet has more than 600 jets reaching 87 countries each day. It also operates extensively in South America, a fact that Hirchson views as bringing extra potential tourism from there to Israel.
Bye Bye--General Lee
Here is the artice that was on Airliners.net.
Delta resuming flights to Israel after five-year hiatus
27.9.2005 | 17:04
Irit Rosenblum
After a five-year hiatus, Delta is resuming flights to Israel, after negotiations between Tourism Ministry Avraham Hirchson and the airline's management. Its decision adds 100,000 seats a year on flights to Tel Aviv.
Official notice of the resumption will be released only on October 6 at a press conference in Atlanta, in Hirchson's presence.
Delta is operating under the court's protection from creditors, but the injunction does not bar it from expanding its operations. If anything it is in the airline's interest to demonstrate that it is adding lines, to increase income.
It will apparently be inaugurating a daily Atlanta-Tel Aviv line in April 2006, and can be expected to significantly increase the traffic of evangelical tourism from the so-called Bible Belt.
The Tourism Ministry has been actively encouraging evangelical tourism and is mulling the establishment of an evangelical center on the shores of the inland Sea of Galilee.
Delta will be using Boeing 777s on the route, each jet with 268 seats. Its fleet has more than 600 jets reaching 87 countries each day. It also operates extensively in South America, a fact that Hirchson views as bringing extra potential tourism from there to Israel.
Bye Bye--General Lee
