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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

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Israeli AI startup IntellAct has developed a video analytics platform to reduce flight departure delays, cut carbon emissions, and improve passenger experience. (Courtesy)
End to flight delays? Israeli startup’s AI system to help carriers depart on time
By Sharon Wrobel
IntellAct’s software uses airport operators and airlines’ existing security and observation cameras to detect service bottlenecks, with aim of helping cut flight delays by 50%
Israeli AI startup IntellAct has developed a video analytics platform to reduce flight departure delays, cut carbon emissions, and improve passenger experience. (Courtesy)
March 13, 2025, 9:12 pm
End to flight delays? Israeli startup’s AI system to help carriers depart on time
IntellAct’s software uses airport operators and airlines’ existing security and observation cameras to detect service bottlenecks, with aim of helping cut flight delays by 50%
By Sharon Wrobel
An easyJet flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, April 11, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
January 17, 2025, 7:30 pm
EasyJet announces resumption of flights to and from Tel Aviv from June 1
British low cost airline will operate 38 weekly flights to and from Israel on the London, Geneva, Amsterdam, Milan, Berlin, Basel and Nice routes
By ToI Staff, Sharon Wrobel and Agencies
A Wizz Air jet comes in to land at Gatwick Airport, south of London on June 10, 2022. (Ben Stansall / AFP)
January 16, 2025, 6:14 pm
Wizz Air resumes Tel Aviv-London flights, Lufthansa group to return Feb. 1
Lufthansa’s five airlines will fly routes to six European travel hubs; EasyJet says it will review its plans in the coming days; Turkish Airlines to return to Damascus after decade
By Sharon Wrobel, Agencies and ToI Staff
An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
December 29, 2024, 7:31 pm
El Al extends price caps to four international hubs through February 2025
Round-trip tickets to Athens stay at $299, while tickets to Vienna, Dubai, and Frankfurt set at $349; airline says it operates dozens of weekly flights there, will add more as able
By ToI Staff
Flights take off at Ben Gurion Airport. April 17, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
December 26, 2024, 7:03 pm
New Israeli airline hopes to launch Tel Aviv-New York route on January 21
With US airlines staying away, limited seats, and sky-high fares, TechAir starts presale of Tel Aviv-New York flight bookings at a roundtrip economy fare of $1,550
By Sharon Wrobel
Departures hall at Ben Gurion Airport, on Sunday August 4, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
November 5, 2024, 8:33 pm
Faced with flight shortage, tech firms relocate staff and seek to run a NY route
As US airlines stay away and fares are high, tech executives embark on plan to operate an airline with leased planes and crews to New York to keep sales and operations running
By Sharon Wrobel
A Wizz Air flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, July 22, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 15, 2024, 9:04 pm
Wizz cancels Israel flights until mid-January; Delta won’t return before April
Some airlines are expected to gradually resume operations after EU lifts recommendation to avoid air travel to Israel amid ongoing fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
By ToI Staff
A man holds a walkie-talkie device with the logo of Japanese firm Icom, after he removed the battery during the funeral of persons killed when pagers distributed to Hezbollah operatives exploded across Lebanon the previous day, in an attack blamed on Israel, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 18, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
October 12, 2024, 6:45 pm
Iran bans pagers, walkie talkies on planes after blasts targeting Hezbollah members
Move comes almost a month since Lebanese terror group members’ pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in attack blamed on Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 Hamas attack, at the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 12:18 am
‘I’m only human’: Regev faces growing criticism over wartime transit, travel snafus
From allegedly failing to arrange buses for reservists to mistakenly claiming to be at a cabinet meeting but on a trip to Budapest, Israel’s transport minister is in the crosshairs
By Sam Sokol
An Air China plane prepares to take off from Rafik Hariri International Airport as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
October 2, 2024, 4:21 am
Airlines scramble to divert flights following Iranian missile attack on Israel
Some 80 flights heading for major Middle East hubs such as Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi were diverted on Tuesday, flight data shows
By Reuters
A man looks at the board displaying multiple delayed and cancelled flights at Ben Gurion International airport on August 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 2, 2024, 2:04 am
Israel seeks to reverse EU’s advice to avoid its skies as foreign carriers nix flights
After briefly resuming services to Tel Aviv, many European airlines suspend their flights for longer periods, leaving Israelis stranded abroad with local airlines fully booked
By Sharon Wrobel
Lufthansa aircrafts parked at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, September 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst,file)
September 3, 2024, 2:36 pm
Lufthansa group to resume flights to Israel Thursday after month-long pause
Other airlines have already restarted operations to and from Tel Aviv in the wake of limited flareup between Hezbollah and Israel last week
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A man looks at the board displaying multiple delayed and cancelled flights at Ben Gurion International airport on August 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 25, 2024, 11:28 am
Travel chaos as Ben Gurion Airport briefly shut, foreign airlines nix flights
Main Israeli travel hub shut for 2 hours as IDF hits Hezbollah to thwart major attack; flights diverted to nearby airports; airport chief says situation slowly returning to normal
By ToI Staff
El Al airplanes on the tarmac at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, October 4, 2022. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)
August 21, 2024, 7:15 pm
El Al announces fixed ticket costs for 4 locations amid price hike accusations
National carrier says flights to Larnaca, Athens, Vienna and Dubai to be at set prices through December as it’s accused of exploiting war to pad profits
By ToI Staff
Arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, on August 4, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/ Times of Israel)
August 4, 2024, 10:48 pm
Amid war fears, at Ben Gurion Airport, it’s business as usual — just less of it
On a Sunday, after some 18 international carriers cancelled services to the Jewish state in anticipation of escalating hostilities, Israel’s main airport was quieter than usual
By Gavriel Fiske
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