Aviation

Blue Bird adds fourth weekly Tel Aviv-Amsterdam flight as summer demand rises

The additional service will begin on August 10, with flights operating four days a week and one-way fares starting at €164.

Blue Bird Airways planes
Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

The Israeli secret inside the Dreamliner: Ashkelon company’s mega-deal

 A Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 passenger aircraft, operated by Europe's leading low-cost airline Ryanair, takes off from Il Caravaggio International Airport on July 11, 2026 in Orio al Serio, near Bergamo, Italy.

Hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets face cabin safety risks and assembly flaws, FAA warns

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787.

Demand surges: Airline significantly expands operations in Israel


Turkish refusal to refuel El Al flight: An offensive violation of intl. obligations - opinion

Political tensions and hostilities don't allow airport and aviation authorities the right to ignore their international duties.

 AN ISRAIR plane is painted with the Israeli and Turkish flags, at Ben-Gurion Airport, as Israeli commercial flights to Turkey resume, February 2023.

Planes flying from Lithuania to SE Asia mysteriously land in Iran

The aircrafts' transponders - which enable them to be identified on air traffic control radars - were turned off on entry into Iranian airspace.

A plane carrying Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian lands in Damascus International Airport, in Damascus, Syria March 23, 2022

How efficient Israeli response to Iran's attack led to resumption of flights

Although fewer visitors than usual are expected to fly to Israel this summer due to the war, restarted airline operations and the reactivation of Ben Gurion’s Terminal 1 might help local tourism.

 An El Al plane in Ben-Gurion Airport.

One dead, 30 injured as Singapore Airlines flight hits turbulence

 The interior of Singapore Airline flight SG321 is pictured after an emergency landing at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Thailand, May 21, 2024.

El Al host Josh Aronson on the autistic spectrum in the cockpit as part of Autism Awareness Week

Aronson, a Manchester journalist, is the first journalist on the autism spectrum to work as a diaspora correspondent for Maariv newspaper.

 Cockpit view from an El Al plane, April 9, 2024.

El Al attack: Will it soon be dangerous for Israelis to board a plane?

"Hostile elements" attempted to take over the communication network of an El Al plane flying from Phuket to Ben-Gurion Airport on Saturday night and divert it from its destination.

El Al Israel Airlines planes are seen on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel March 10, 2020.

Israel's Ben-Gurion University revolutionizes clean air travel with new aviation technology

This dynamic duo is poised to revolutionize the aviation industry with a novel method for producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), a critical weapon in the fight against climate change. 

 Prof. Moti Herskowitz and his lab team

Israeli airlines lobby for assistance amidst $155 million refund burden

“They should be applauded for continuing to fly, not punished.”

 El Al airplane

El Al revamps passenger planes to carry cargo to Israel

The move comes as passenger transport to Israel finally wanes, after several weeks of increased flights as thousands of reservists and Israelis living abroad returned home for the war.

 El Al employees remove passenger seats from a Boeing 777, so that the plane can be used to transport cargo to Israel during the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli citizen killed in New Jersey helicopter crash

Local news outlets confirmed the time and location of the crash in South Brunswick, New Jersey.

 Robinson R22 helicopter.