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 establishe...
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 so...
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 significa...
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...
Steve Jaffe Apr 26, 2020 4 min The New Middle-East Super Connector? For a brief, shining moment over the past few weeks, the El Al route map expanded to nine new cities on world-girdling routes throughout ...
Steve Jaffe Apr 12, 2020 3 min Israeli diplomatic breakthroughs start to bear tangible aeropolitical results On March 16, the Jerusalem Post reported that Sudan had authorized direct flights to Israel to overfly its territory. The announcement ca...
Steve Jaffe Aug 5, 2019 4 min Ten New Breakthrough Routes to Israel New air service to Israel from far-flung places continues -- some are pure business routes -- others leisure destinations, and a few surp...
Steve Jaffe Feb 4, 2019 2 min Latin flavor adds spice to the Israeli aviation market Since the 1960s, El Al had interest in flying to Buenos Aires, but its plans never came to fruition, partly due to the circuitous routing...
Steve Jaffe Feb 1, 2019 3 min Asian airlines play catch-up in Israeli market For decades, Israel was terra incognita on the route maps of Asian airlines. Based in a region with historically less-developed commercia...
