Posted on 10/19/2015 10:18:01 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Scandinavian Airlines announces it will stop flying to Tel Aviv as of March, cites political instability.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) announced on Monday it would be stopping its flights to Israel, citing “political instability” as being behind the decision.
In addition to flights to the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, the airline also announced it would no longer include Moscow and Ankara among its destinations either.
Flights from Copenhagen to Tel Aviv will cease in March of 2016, the airline announced, a little more than three years after Scandinavian Airlines launched its flight to Israel.
"The route to Tel Aviv is expensive to operate and is under tough competition and we do not have sufficient profitability to continue to operate it. We can also see that the political instability affects the route," a spokesman for SAS told the Check-in.dk website.
In July of 2014, in the midst of the counterterrorism Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, several airlines halted flights to and from Israel following a rocket strike in the area.
Those airlines included U.S. Airways, Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Germanwings and Swiss Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines.
It remains unclear whether Scandinavian Airlines’ decision is related to recent tensions between Israel and Sweden, where the airline’s headquarters are located.
The announcement of Sweden's recognition of "Palestine" last year saw withering verbal jabs about IKEA furniture between then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, as well as Swedish financial institutions boycotting Israeli companies. Israel also temporarily withdrew its ambassador from Stockholm.
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Instead of cancelling the flights, they should hang a couple of bombs under the wings to drop on Hamas on the way in.
They probably support Hamas.
Looks like most who possessed any brains left and immigrated to the US, the rest of them stayed home.
If they really believe in that instability bs, just wait for the Moslems to ramp up their terror attacks and welfare demands in Sweden.
The Hamas hamsters have infested Sweden.
I’ve often wondered if there was anything to that in terms of European migration to the New World.
Like their influx and carnage from jihadi muslims isnt doing that to them.
BY and large Swedish-Americans are wealthier than the guys who stayed home.
They really need their inner Vikings to wake up and deal with the problem, along with kicking out their useless government.
Citing “political instability” meaning anti-Semitism and support for Palestinians. Notice however, that they’re not offering flights into Palestinian-controlled areas. Why? I think we know why.
Fire at home, Islam ramping up attacks, pressure being applied the the government there and the net result?
Spit at free & Democratic, Liberal Israel fighting the Swedes’ battles in Israel. Makes no sense.
Israel/Jews should boycott IKEA.
Because there isn’t a useable airport there anymore. The Israelis bombed the hell out of it years ago.
This is BS. If the situation was so bad they should have canceled the flight yesterday. Why wait until March?
Copenhagen is less politically stable that Tel Aviv.
Just following the CAN’T WE JUST GET ALONG scenario that they formulated with Hitler.
no biggie..the Swedes really enjoy having their women and children raped by the mussies
And the Palestinians can’t build? Is that what you’re saying? No, they can only sneak suicide bombers into public places to destroy what others have.
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