Ryanair opens new tab plans to operate a full schedule of flights from Tel Aviv this summer and is hopeful that Ben Gurion Airport will reopen its shuttered Terminal 1, senior executive Eddie Wilson says in an interview.
Ryanair is one of several airlines to have withdrawn from Israel due to war in Gaza and Lebanon. It restarted flights from neighboring Jordan in December.
“We rely on (European aviation regulator) EASA guidance … but our view is that we will be back,” says Wilson, chief executive of Ryanair DAC, the largest of five subsidiary airlines operated by the Ryanair Group.
“We’ve got a full schedule I think for Tel Aviv…so we will be back in there for the summer as I think most of the other airlines will be,” Wilson says.
Asked about the reopening of Ben Gurion’s Terminal 1, which is used by low-cost operators, Wilson says: “We would hope that they would take the sensible decision to open that.”
Wilson, who was speaking in Berlin, said Ryanair planned to deploy two additional aircraft to regional airports in Germany this summer, offering 800,000 more seats.
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