Ryanair, Ireland’s leading airline and Europe’s largest in terms of passenger numbers, has announced that its flights to and from Tel Aviv will resume from 1 February.
The company confirmed on Thursday that it expects to restart operations to and from Tel Aviv. Ryanair continues to comply with the current guidelines from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), following the lead of several other European carriers like Aegean, Air France, Austrian, Lufthansa and Swiss Airlines.
Initially, the budget airline will maintain a reduced flight schedule, serving routes between Tel Aviv and several locations: Marseille in France, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Memmingen in Germany, Milan in Italy, and Vienna in Austria.
In addition, Air-France-KLM groups' low-cost branch Transavia announced its plans for a gradual resumption of its flights between Paris-Orly and Tel Aviv from 1 February. The group says this is dependent on the evolving situation in the Middle East.
Air France had previously announced on 9 January that it would resume its service to Tel Aviv, suspended since 7 October of last year. From 24 January, Air France will run three weekly flights between Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. This is a reduced schedule in comparison to the two daily flights that ran previously.
Lufthansa already resumed its connections on 8 January, and Greek airline Aegean has recommenced the resumption of services to Israel.
