El Al

[David_itl]

In light of the service that was discussed a while ago, we may as well have a thread for El Al/Sun d'Or etc

'A source close to the Israeli national airline told the Jewish Telegraph: "The plan is to have it ready by April. It’s not official. We’re still waiting to hear about slots."
El Al is understood to be firmly committed to going ahead and wants to begin flights in time for Pesach, and even as early as March.'

https://www.jewishtelegraph.com/man_news.html

 

[David_itl]

Looks to be on for next year https://www.routesonline.com/news/3...hester-service-resumption-from-late-may-2019/

 

[Scottie Dog]

I think I'll keep my fingers crossed on this one - at least for the time being. Was it summer 2017 or 2018 when they had slots and then cancelled early in the year?

 

[Scottie Dog]

Looks as if I might need to eat my own words - I see that it has now been formally announced by both EL Al and Manchester Airport.

Pass the mustard..........

 

[Scottie Dog]

New service on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from 26th May with B737-800. Arr 1040z Dep 1200z.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Another great addition to the Manchester tarmac.

 

[gonetech]

Isn't it about time MAN got over it's Water cannon salute fiasco some years ago and gave EL AL the honour it deserves on it's significant return to MAN.
Most other airports seem to manage this respectful tradition without incident.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

That fiasco with Virgin Atlantic was expensive as well as embarrassing. Better stick with baking a cake.

 

[Jerry]

 

[jfy1999]

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[Scottie Dog]

New twice per week TLV with B737-800 Weds and Sun, continues from S19 which was
three per week.

 

[Coathanger16]

Coronavirus: El Al to suspend almost all routes

El Al has announced it will phase out operations on most of its routes from March 15, amid stringent restrictions on travel to Israel.

The exceptions will be New York Newark, Toronto, London, Paris and Johannesburg. It usually flies to 40 destinations from Tel Aviv.

In the UK, the flag carrier also flies to Manchester, a route it relaunched in May last year.

Coronavirus: El Al to suspend almost all routes – Business Traveller

The exceptions will be New York Newark, Toronto, London, Paris and Johannesburg.

www.businesstraveller.com

easyJet still operating the route for now.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Hope it comes back however not sure it will hadn't they already reduced the number of rotations

 

[Scottie Dog]

Update from airlineroutes:

El Al Israel Airlines recently filed changes to its inventory for Tel Aviv – Manchester route. Upon overall scheduled service resumption as early as 31MAY20, the airline schedules 2 weekly flights on this route, instead of 3. Service on Tuesdays is not available for reservation.

LY301 TLV1730 – 2110MAN 738 47
LY302 MAN2215 – 0530+1TLV 738 47