No-frills airline Ryanair on Tuesday announces its first flights to Israel, with three new routes departing from Hungary, Lithuania and Poland.
The Irish carrier says it will operate six weekly flights, two each between Israel’s Eilat Ovda airport and Budapest, Kaunas and Krakow.
Eilat Ovda airport is located in the south of Israel, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Eilat City.
Ryanair Boeing 737-800 aircraft (EI-EKR) after landing at Belfast City Airport, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo credit: Ardfern, CC, via Wikimedia Commons)
“Ryanair is pleased to announce our entry into the Israeli market from November 2015, our 31st country,” Ryanair Chief Commercial Officer David O’Brien says in a statement.
The airline forecasts that 40,000 customers will use the routes annually, adding it is in talks over introducing further flights to Israel.
— AFP
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