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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is received by an honor guard at the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, January 20, 2019 (Koby Gideon/GPO)
January 22, 2019, 6:42 am
Chad has an appalling democracy and rights record. Why is Netanyahu courting it?
PM’s delight in ties with a problematic regime is part of a strategy to warm relations with Muslim world, brings prospect of improved airplane routes, can boost him domestically
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman on October 26, 2018 (Courtesy)
December 10, 2018, 1:05 pm
Israeli planes can use Omani, Sudanese airspace, Netanyahu says
Without similar permission from the Saudis, Muscat’s promise seems purely symbolic, as sultanate borders on states with no diplomatic ties to Israel
By Raphael Ahren
The site on Ketron Island in Washington state where an Horizon Air turboprop plane crashed Friday after it was stolen from Sea-Tac International Airport is seen from the air, Saturday, August 11, 2018, near Steilacoom, Washington. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
August 12, 2018, 2:18 pm
As authorities probe how worker stole Seattle jet, family mourns ‘kind’ man
29-year-old Richard Russell is presumed dead; authorities say scrambled F-15C aircraft didn’t fire at the empty passenger plane prior to the crash
By Agencies
El Al new aircraft Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrives for a welcome ceremony after landing at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv on August 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 28, 2018, 11:31 am
El Al sues Israeli government over new Air India route
Allowing foreign carrier to cross Saudi Arabia en route to Israel while Israeli carrier cannot violates equality and numerous state decisions, airline argues in High Court petition
By Raphael Ahren
A Boeing 787 flight number AI139 of Indian national carrier Air India, from New Delhi, performs maneuvers on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018 after using Saudi airspace for the first time. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)
March 26, 2018, 12:36 pm
As Israel fetes Air India flight over Saudi airspace, El Al cries foul
Top airline official fumes over ‘discrimination,’ says government granting foreign competitors an unfair advantage may spell economic hardship for Israel’s national carrier
By Raphael Ahren
Emirates passenger planes at Dubai airport in United Arab Emirates, on May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
January 22, 2018, 8:23 pm
US tightens rules on Middle East air cargo after 2017 Australia bomb plot
TSA says new measures due to ‘intent by terrorist groups to attack aviation’ via planes departing Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi shake hands at a joint press conference in the president's house in New Delhi, India, on January 15, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
January 18, 2018, 11:33 am
Netanyahu: Israel looking for ‘direct, simple’ flight route to India
PM’s comments follow report that Riyadh mulling permission for Air India to use airspace en route to Tel Aviv; move would cut 2 hours off journey
By Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren
This May 6, 1937 photo, provided by the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was taken at almost the split second that the Hindenburg exploded over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, N.J. (AP Photo, File)
May 6, 2017, 6:08 pm
80 years ago, when the Hindenburg burst into flames
The German airship exploded at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey on May 6, 1937, killing 35 people aboard and one on the ground
By AP
Orville (L), Katharine and Wilbur Wright, 1909. (Photo: Bain Collection/Library of Congress)
March 15, 2017, 12:58 am
Writer to right passage on Wright’s wrong
Famed historian David McCullough is quick to amend an excerpt describing anti-Semitic remarks by sister of fathers of flight
By Marshall Weiss
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
February 28, 2017, 2:25 pm
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Let there be an airport in Gaza
A dream of local UN humanitarian aviation that could alleviate untenable living conditions for 2 million Gazans
Samsung Galaxy S7 mobile devices on display at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, August 2, 2016. (AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
October 16, 2016, 2:50 pm
Following US recommendation, Israel bans Galaxy Note 7 on flights
Civil Aviation Authority blocks passengers from boarding planes with phones that have caught fire numerous times
By TOI staff and Agencies
A DHL plane lands up on a highway after bursting through a perimeter fence at Orio al Serio airport in Bergamo, Italy, on August 5, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
August 5, 2016, 1:15 pm
Plane overshoots runway in Italy, ends up on highway
Italian aviation officials say pilot and first officer both unhurt when Boeing 737 400 botched its landing from Paris
By AP
An Iran Air Boeing 747SP (Konstantin von Wedelstaedt/Wikimedia Commons)
February 20, 2016, 9:25 am
US grants Boeing license to study Iran market
Permit frees plane maker from some American restrictions still placed on Tehran over terror support, rights abuses
By AFP
A plane from the Iranian private airline Mahan Air lands the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 1, 2015 (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
July 28, 2015, 8:59 am
Iran looks to resume direct flights to US
Tehran’s aviation chief says removal of sanctions under nuclear deal will also enable eased travel to European capitals
By TOI staff
Tour group in Israel via Shutterstock.
August 7, 2014, 2:50 pm
A bruised tourism industry vows to keep its chin up
With jittery visitors canceling in droves, travel and hotel execs report losses in the hundreds of millions of shekels
By Debra Kamin
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