Ryanair Resumes Tel Aviv Flights

The Irish airline Ryanair, Europe's largest in terms of number of passengers carried, announced that it would resume flights to or from Tel Aviv on February 1, interrupted since the Hamas attack on Israel in early October.

Ryanair “confirmed that it would resume operations to or from Tel Aviv,” the company said in a statement.

The company is acting "in accordance with current EASA guidelines (the European Aviation Safety Agency, editor's note) and the resumption of operations of several other European carriers, including Aegean, Air France, Austrian, Lufthansa and Swiss", they clarified.

The low-cost airline will initially operate a reduced flight program on routes between Tel Aviv and Marseille in France, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Memmingen in Germany, Milan in Italy and Vienna in Austria.

For its part, Air France announced on January 9 the next resumption of its service to Tel Aviv, suspended since October 7.

From January 24, Air France will operate three rotations per week between Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, a smaller program than the one that existed previously, i.e. two daily connections with large Airbus A350 carriers.

Many other airlines had stopped flying to Israel in the wake of deadly Hamas raids and rocket attacks from Gaza, particularly towards the Tel Aviv region. Since then, Lufthansa has resumed its routes on January 8. The Greek company Aegean has also resumed serving Israel.