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After Delta Reroutes Flight Into Israel, 5 Other Airlines Suspend Flights To Tel Aviv On Missile Worries
Update: U.S. FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL HALTED BY FAA
About two hours ago, and in the aftermath of the public outcry regarding flights in conflict zones, first Delta then most other major international carriers announced they would suspend flights to Israel "until further notice" amid concerns that a rocket landed near Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. The list of confirmed airlines that have halted such flights is shown below.
- US Airways also said it has canceled two flights to and from Tel Aviv from Philadelphia.
- United Airlines canceled two flights from Newark to Tel Aviv, according to FlightAware.com.
- American Airlines told NBC News that it is meeting to discuss the situation.
- Lufthansa said there are no changes to its Tel Aviv flight schedules for now.
- British Airways said it continued to operate as normal but is monitoring the situation.
- KLM said it was meeting to discuss the issue.
According to NBC, "the move comes amid heightened concerns over the safety of passenger aircraft flying over war zones. A Malaysian Air Lines jet with 298 aboard was brought down as it was flying over contested Ukrainian territory. The White House said the Federal Aviation Administration has not issued any notices about flights over the Middle East. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told NBC News there is no event to the best of his knowledge taking place now at Ben Gurion. He said he believes the Delta cancellation probably came after a rocket fell 3 miles from the airport earlier Tuesday."
The flight redirection is shown most vividly in the following flight pattern of Delta flight 468 from New York to Tel Aviv (via Flightradar24) which was rerouted shortly before arrival and landed in Paris instead.
Meanwhile Israel says there is nothing to fear. From Bloomberg:
After US Air and Delta cancel flights scheduled to land in Israeli airport this evening, Transport Minister Israel Katz says Ben-Gurion safe for landings and take-offs, according to Aviation Authority. No concern for safety of planes or passengers.
For now, however, nobody is taking chances with another MH17 tragedy.
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<--- A: Paris
<--- A: Tel Aviv
Q: Where to land, where to land? Decisions, decisions.
Tel Aviv, DUH!!!
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c9f8ff0e-10c5-11e4-812b-00144feabdc0.html
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Paris riots? Nonsense. If Matt Lauer didn't tell me about it that means it didn't happen!
Look, I like Tel Aviv, but right now I think I'd settle for landing at CDG, and take a quick ride to the Quartier Latin. SVP.
And avoid the tourist traps: too expensive and too annoying. Being a tourist/visitor does not mean I have to be around them. Kirk prefers going native. ;-)
Serving free SodaStream and vodka to all the poor displaced passengers.
LOL!
Fuck PoisonStream and the CEO of the company.
hava a good time in haifa
before you die in tel aviv.
bring your girlfriend or wife.
when your gone we will kidnap her and pimp her out too the rabbis.
The faintest whiff of shit and all the anti-semites come swarming in.
eye up voted you in case you are a jewish and a full fledged up member of the kabbilistic child kill death cults.
i am not your enema.
if needs be i will gary oldman mel gibson myself at your cloven hoofs
It's not a faint whiff, it's been a full on shit storm since 2008!
Don't fool yourself, you don't smell your own brand Greatdanepole.
well, somebody lets them talk smack
israel won't go away and the so called palestinians won't take it
it is going to be this way until its all over for us all
we are going to all have our own problems
our big mouths won't help
Do those airlines still fly to Damascus, Baghdad, Kabul, Moscow? I can understand the caution, but given that Kerry is in the area - uninvited, I might add - it looks like selective caution to me.
I just wish there was condemnation of Hamas equal to that of Putin and his thugs in Eastern Ukraine.
And if wishes were gold coins, I could retire now!
Do those airlines still fly to Damascus, Baghdad, Kabul, Moscow? I can understand the caution, but given that Kerry is in the area - uninvited, I might add - it looks like selective caution to me.
I just wish there was condemnation of Hamas equal to that of Putin and his thugs in Eastern Ukraine.
And if wishes were gold coins, I could retire now!
Getting close to the war of Gog and Magog, a regional M.E. war in 2015 near the end of the year. However, this is not WW3 that comes closer to 2018 if other events continue to happen.
See Ezekial 38-39. Here is a decent link and explaination.
http://www.raptureforums.com/EndTimesEvents/thegogandmagogwarofezekiel38...
"Getting close to the war of Gog and Magog, a regional M.E. war in 2015 near the end of the year."
Absolutely wrong. You need to read Revelation 20:7,8 to determine when that will occur.
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.
This event will occur after the Millenium of Christ's rule.
Just another erroneous teaching from false prophets who don't understand the Bible's prophecies.
Matthew 24:3-5,10-11:"Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Jesus answered, "Watch out that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name,.. At that time many will turn away from the faith... and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people."
I really, I mean really really hope the Palestinians and Gazans can get some of Eurasia's top notch missile technology (and a lot of it). I think that if the Israelis want to play asshole they should at least have to incur a reasonable amount of risk that is inherent in war. Unfortunately the blockades/apartheid/checkpoints/etc. have been so thorough that the "big and bad" Israeli Wehrmacht is basically just murdering unarmed people.
I also hope that Russia, Iran and China all develop such sophisticated AA capability and Anti-Ship capability and in such quantity that the USSA and Western Europe will stay the fuck out of Asia and Russia.
Smart Israelis should start thinking about moving to a safer country.
The more rubble the IDF creates, the more hiding places are created for Hamas - think the Battle of Stalingrad and how that turned out.....