The First Foreign Airlines Returning to Ben Gurion: Flydubai, TUS Airways, and Blue Bird – All the Details
Following the ceasefire and the full resumption of activities by Israeli airlines at Ben Gurion Airport, three foreign airlines have already announced the renewal of their routes to Israel.
The airline Flydubai from the United Arab Emirates, which has barely suspended its operations with Israel recently, is expected to resume its flights tonight (Wednesday). Initially, two daily flights will be operated between Tel Aviv and Dubai, and over the coming days, the number of flights will gradually increase. The direct routes to Dubai provide Israelis with a convenient bridge to a wide range of international destinations, mainly thanks to Flydubai’s connection with Emirates, allowing for onward flights to almost anywhere in the world.
From Thursday (June 26) to Saturday (June 28), two daily flights will operate:
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FZ1808 – Departure from Ben Gurion at 00:50, arrival in Dubai at 05:05
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FZ1126 – Departure at 19:55, landing in Dubai at 00:20 (next day)
On Saturday, only the night flight (FZ1808) will depart.
Starting Sunday (June 29), the operation will expand to 4 flights each day:
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FZ1808 – Midnight and fifty from Ben Gurion, landing at 05:10
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FZ1636 – Departure at 12:40, arrival at 16:55
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FZ1126 – Evening departure, landing after midnight
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FZ1626 – Departure at 23:50, arrival in Dubai at 04:10
At the beginning of July, according to the plan, the company will reach seven daily flights, and on July 2, it will return to the original schedule of eight flights a day.
TUS Airways and Blue Bird Airways Also Join the Return to Ben Gurion
The two airlines, which have so far operated mainly in a rescue flight format to Jordan, TUS Airways from Cyprus and Blue Bird Airways from Greece, announce that starting tomorrow (Thursday), they will resume operations at Ben Gurion with a scheduled flight timetable to their regular destinations.
After two weeks of partial operations that mainly included routes between Greece and Cyprus to Aqaba, the Israeli-owned companies will once again operate their regular flights to destinations across Europe and the Mediterranean.
Tickets can already be purchased through the companies’ websites, with TUS’s prominent destinations in the coming days including: Larnaca, Corfu, Rome, Thessaloniki, and Sofia.
According to the companies’ management:
“We are working at full speed to return to regular operations and expect to operate most destinations in the coming week.”
