Israel – Intercontinental air travel between Israel and the United States has been disrupted by heavy snowstorms in the northeast, affecting thousands of travelers.
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El Al Airlines has canceled flight #027 that was supposed to take off from Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday at midnight for New York. Flight #028, intended to take off from New York on Tuesday night and arrive in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning has also been canceled.
Flight #001 that was supposed to take off from Tel Aviv at 1:00 A.M. Wednesday morning has been delayed to 11:30 A.M.
Another El Al U.S.-bound flight that was originally supposed to depart from Ben Gurion on Wednesday morning, #007, has been delayed to 3 P.M. on Wednesday afternoon.
El Al has announced that passengers can get updates on the scheduling changes at its website, or by calling a special hotline phone number at 03-9771111.
Delta Airlines has also cancelled its night flight from Tel Aviv to New York, and Continental Airlines has postponed its own Tuesday night flight to Wednesday.
This time of year, they are probably not fully booked so it won’t be any big inconvenience except for business travellers.
You have to love these half donkey articles in the Izzy press. The way they report “facts” you would think they could get a job here for MSdnc!
ElAl #27 is the TLV-EWR flight (arrives EWR at 6a) and ElAl #28 is the EWR-TLV flight (departs EWR at 115p). The other flights are for JFK.