FAA tells US airlines not to fly to Tel Aviv

AP ^ | July 22, 2014 | Joan Lowy

[C19fan]

What happens if a plane is alread en route to Tel Aviv? Turn around?

[monkeyshine]

Yes, a Delta flight was half way across the Mediterranean sea when it turned and went to Paris Charles de Gaulle.

[TurkeyLurkey]

This is unbelievable!

[C19fan]

I wonder if travel insurance will pay out in these circumastances. Imagine paying a boat load of money to go to Israel and thanks to Hamas no trip.

[freedumb2003]

>>What happens if a plane is alread en route to Tel Aviv? Turn around?<<

There are none. All the flights going to Tel Aviv have alreay landed and there are non (not even El Al) in flight.

http://www.flightarrivals.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Flights.woa/wa/arrivals

Choose Airport and TVL (Tel Aviv’s airport code).

[Star Traveler]

Two U.S. airlines suspend Israel flights after rocket attack near airport [FAA suspends all flights]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183565/posts

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.606534

7:41 P.M. The FAA prohibits all U.S. airlines from flying to and from Ben-Gurion International Airport “for a period of up to 24 hours.”

5:57 P.M. Delta Airlines and U.S. Airways suspend flights to and from Israel on Tuesday. This follows a warning from the Federal Aviation Authority given after a rocket fell earlier Tuesday in Yehud, near Ben-Gurion International Airport. United Airlines announced it will continue operating as usual.

A Delta Airlines flight from New York to Israel landed in Paris following the decision. U.S. Air has relocated planes currently at Ben-Gurion airport tonight’s planned flight has been canceled. (Zohar Blumenkrantz)

[Star Traveler]

It would be diverted to another airport.

[freedumb2003]

>>I wonder if travel insurance will pay out in these circumastances. Imagine paying a boat load of money to go to Israel and thanks to Hamas no trip.<<

Highly unlikely. Almost all (maybe all) flight insurance excludes war, insurrection, civil unrest and about 100 more synonyms for fighting.

[bert]

So, now Gaza can be destroyed. There is justifiable cause to destroy all that is there to cause the rockets to cease.

[bert]

This is the equivalent of closing the war memorials on the mall.

[Piranha]

No doubt misguided State Delartment pressure to compel Israel to accept Kerry’s cease fire on Hamas’s terms.

[golux]

As if ANYONE needed another reason to fly EL AL!

golux

[pierrem15]

Yup-- more gangster government from Obama trying a petty way to pressure Israel and save our "negotiating partner" Hamas.

The noose would be too good for our POS president and his turd-worthy Secretary of State.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I can’t really blame their decision to do this..El Al is the ONLY airline with detection for an incoming rocket. I don’t know why other airliners don’t have this capability..that is why from LA to Israel we ONLY fly El Al..its the only way to fly :-)

[keat]

Current traffic, includes a ERJ-190 inbound from Oslo.

[Truth29]

I don’t know if this decision has a US political component, but, regardless, Israel should now obliterate any Palestinian location with the ability to reach Tel Aviv airport. (Maybe they could pick up Kerry while they are at it and drop him in the Gaza Strip so he can see first hand who he is trying to save.)

[molson209]

Smells like the work of Valerie Jarrett

[mountainlion]

Hamas gets its first victory with the complacency of the FAA

[Biggirl]

Rather worry about another missle to plane shoot down just last week.

[Biggirl]

This will just make Israel more angry and determined to take out the rat nest called Gaza.