Yes, a Delta flight was half way across the Mediterranean sea when it turned and went to Paris Charles de Gaulle.
This is unbelievable!
>>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).
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)
It would be diverted to another airport.
So, now Gaza can be destroyed. There is justifiable cause to destroy all that is there to cause the rockets to cease.
This is the equivalent of closing the war memorials on the mall.
No doubt misguided State Delartment pressure to compel Israel to accept Kerry’s cease fire on Hamas’s terms.
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 :-)
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.)
Smells like the work of Valerie Jarrett
Wondering if have intel that Hamas has some type of SAM
(Surface air missile) - suspect have some shoulder fires
SA7/SA14/SA18 missiles
Possible have something longer range capab;e of hitting planes
from Gaza
The airlines, at least SOME OF THEM had already announced they were suspending flights into Tel Aviv. THEN the federal bureaucrats announced their unnecessary edict. We do not need a federal government telling companies what to do....the business exists to make a PROFIT. The men who run those businesses determined....ALL WITHOUT OBAMA'S HELP that flights should be suspended.
The FAA is merely interfering with normal market forces and should butt out.
Funny they never issued such a warning for Ukraine
The news just said there was a flight over the Mediterranean on its way to Tel Aviv had to redirect to Paris.
So, the answer is: make other plans.
So in effect Hamas is now flight control in and out of Israel.