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El Al says it is suspending all flights to Moscow for the week
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSharon Wrobel is a tech reporter for The Times of Israel
An El Al plane arrives from France at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg / Flash90)
Israel’s flagship carrier El Al says it has suspended all of its flights from Tel Aviv to Moscow for this week, “citing developments in Russia’s airspace.”
“Over the next week, a renewed assessment of the situation will be carried out to decide whether the route will be resumed,” El Al says in a statement.
El Al will soon send passengers an update regarding the developments, the airline says.
The move comes after an Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan yesterday was said by some officials to be downed by a Russian air defense system.
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