Air India set to resume near-daily flights between Tel Aviv and Delhi starting in December
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Once flights resume, the company will join Ben-Gurion Airport’s list of foreign long-haul carriers, which currently includes US carriers Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
Air India’s first Boeing 787 Dreamliner (R) aircraft from Charleston, USA, is parked on the tarmac at Indira Gandhi International Airport’s Terminal T-3 in New Delhi, on September 8, 2012.
Air India is set to return to Israel, with five direct flights a week between Delhi and Tel Aviv planned to begin on December 1, N12 News reported.
According to the report, the Indian flag carrier most recently resumed flights in March 2025 following an intermittent hiatus amid the Gaza war after the October 7 massacre, but then stopped flights again in May 2025 shortly after a Houthi ballistic missile impacted Ben-Gurion Airport.
The report noted that the airline also briefly resumed flights in March 2024, stopped them in April 2024, resumed in May 2024, then stopped again in August 2024.
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As the only carrier operating directly between the two countries, Air India’s return will reopen possibilities for Israeli and Indian travelers, who have had to rely on layover flights during its absence.
Air India to join Delta, United in Ben-Gurion’s list of foreign long-haul carriers
Once flights resume, the company will join Ben-Gurion Airport’s list of foreign long-haul carriers, which currently includes US carriers Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
Delta resumed its JFK-Tel Aviv route on September 7, while United resumed its similar Newark-Tel Aviv route two days later.
Reference Link:- https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-909975
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
