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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

Israeli airspace

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
Israel starts allowing outbound flights, restricted to 50 passengers per plane
By Sharon Wrobel
Over 1,000 Israelis and foreigners expected to leave Monday, with cap on travelers aimed at minimizing security risk and overcrowding at Ben Gurion Airport amid Iran attacks
Israeli passengers on Arkia's first repatriation flight leaving from Larnaca to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2025. (Courtesy Arkia)
Arkia and Air Haifa to face class action suit over profiteering during Iran war
By Sharon Wrobel
An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
Foreign, local carriers urge Israel to bear passenger compensation for nixed flights
By Sharon Wrobel
Stranded Israelis wait in a standby queue at Heathrow Airport in London to try and get seats on an El Al flight departing for Tel Aviv, on June 25, 2025. (Courtesy)
July 7, 2025, 5:09 pm
Government agrees it must help pay costs borne by travelers, airlines due to Iran war
Economic Affairs Committee head demands plan within 10 days for compensating passengers stranded when Israeli airspace closed, without putting the whole burden on airlines
By Sharon Wrobel
An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 1, 2025, 10:59 pm
Foreign, local carriers urge Israel to bear passenger compensation for nixed flights
Request comes as most European and US airlines are still avoiding Israel after Iran ceasefire came into effect, and are weighing future flight operations to the country
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli passengers on Arkia's first repatriation flight leaving from Larnaca to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2025. (Courtesy Arkia)
June 30, 2025, 8:49 pm
Arkia and Air Haifa to face class action suit over profiteering during Iran war
Rather than provide return flights to Israeli customers stranded abroad, the two local carriers allegedly chose to refund canceled tickets and sell new tickets at far higher prices
By Sharon Wrobel
Travelers line up at the El Al check-in and security counters at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, on June 24, 2025. (Courtesy)
June 29, 2025, 5:20 pm
Israeli travelers again face astronomical air fares for peak summer season
Most European and US airlines are still avoiding Israel after the Iran ceasefire; with few flights available, Israelis forced to buy expensive tickets from local carriers
By Sharon Wrobel
Foreign residents evacuated from Israel after missile strikes cross at the Taba Land Port, a border crossing on the eastern border with Israel, to Egypt, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo)
June 23, 2025, 3:43 am
Despite travel warning, most returning Israelis are coming home via Jordan and Egypt
Over 70,000 Israelis have got back since start of war with Iran; 39,000 of them entered via land border crossings with two Arab neighbors
By Sharon Wrobel
An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
June 23, 2025, 2:46 am
Israel starts allowing outbound flights, restricted to 50 passengers per plane
Over 1,000 Israelis and foreigners expected to leave Monday, with cap on travelers aimed at minimizing security risk and overcrowding at Ben Gurion Airport amid Iran attacks
By Sharon Wrobel
An El Al repatriation flight lands at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv amid the war with Iran, June 18, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
June 22, 2025, 2:49 am
Israeli carriers to start outbound flights on Monday, limited to 50 people per plane
El Al opens registration for flights to destinations in Europe, US, and Far East, enabling foreigners and Israelis to leave by air for first time since start of conflict with Iran
By Sharon Wrobel
An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
June 20, 2025, 9:50 pm
Israel is set to start outbound flights Monday as more than 50,000 citizens return home
Diplomats, tourists, youth and sports groups stuck are poised to depart on half-full planes; thousands of Israelis return home via air, sea and land border crossings
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli passengers on Arkia's first repatriation flight leaving from Larnaca to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2025. (Courtesy Arkia)
June 18, 2025, 12:24 pm
First repatriation flights spirit Israelis home from Cyprus as air mission takes off
El Al, Arkia, and Israir planes from Larnaca and more flights from around Europe land at Ben Gurion Airport; will gradually bring back 100,000 people stranded abroad by war
By Sharon Wrobel and Rossella Tercatin
File: Parked airplanes at Ben Gurion Airport, August 8, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
June 17, 2025, 10:09 pm
Israeli airlines set to launch repatriation flights Wednesday to bring citizens home
El Al, Arkia and Israir scheduled to operate a limited number of flights to pick up stranded Israelis from nearby Cyprus and Greece, and some European destinations
By Sharon Wrobel
El Al airplanes on the tarmac at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, October 4, 2022. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)
June 16, 2025, 7:34 pm
Israel embarks on plan to bring more than 100,000 Israelis stuck abroad safely home
El Al opens registration for stranded passengers to map return flights; Arkia creates flight schedule for Israelis to return from Athens, Larnaca, Rome, Paris and New York
By Sharon Wrobel
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