Steve Jaffe Dec 7, 2020 3 min The Metamorphosis of Gulf Air Last week El Al and Gulf Air jointly announced that they had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to seek opportunities for...
Steve Jaffe Dec 1, 2020 7 min Is Dubai the pot of gold – or just the end of the road -- for El Al? The new air service between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain represents a potential breakthrough moment for Israeli national carrier El Al....
Steve Jaffe Nov 27, 2020 3 min The (not so) little airline that could -- a profile of Flydubai In case you missed it, Flydubai’s arrival today at Ben Gurion Airport marked the first scheduled passenger flight on the newly...
Steve Jaffe Nov 18, 2020 4 min Sudan, Tigray, and the importance of strategic airspace redundancy On Sunday, November 8, El Al flight 5057 flew over Sudan en route from Tel Aviv (TLV) to Entebbe (EBB). The 737-900, which was heading...
Steve Jaffe Nov 5, 2020 3 min FlyDubai to be first airline to serve Dubai-Tel Aviv route flyDubai has announced that it will start service between its home base and Tel Aviv on November 26. With this remarkably fast startup,...
Steve Jaffe Nov 3, 2020 2 min Israeli skies starting to fill with transit flights In another historic breakthrough for Israeli aviation, an Etihad 787-10 enroute from Milan (MXP) to Abu Dhabi (AUH) became the first...
Steve Jaffe Nov 2, 2020 2 min Hebrew language website and kosher food – UAE welcome Israeli travelers The Emerati travel and tourism industry is putting its full resources into building the marketing and hospitality infrastructure to...
Steve Jaffe Oct 30, 2020 4 min New Middle East airspace agreements – what they are and why they matter Easily overlooked in the wake of the recent breathtaking pace of Arab-Israeli normalization developments are a series of highly...
Steve Jaffe Oct 28, 2020 2 min Israeli delegation lands in Bahrain An El Al 737-900ER transported a team of high-level U.S. and Israeli officials to Manama on October 18 for the signing of significant...
Steve Jaffe Oct 28, 2020 3 min Israel signs air service agreements with UAE and Bahrain Just weeks after signing the historic normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain, Israel has concluded air service agreements with...
