FlyDubai Launching Flights To Tel Aviv, Israel

Must be the matter of maintaining the right seating capacity. Once the demand is high I could see Emirates adding their service as well.

Other Muslim countries(Malaysia/Indonesia etc) are going to boycott Emirates if it flies to Israel.

@Freedom...you must be a Palestinian for sure...

@freedom they don’t boycott KLM, BA, and others who all fly there

I wonder if @freedom isn't far off... EgyptAir's flights between CAI and TLV operate under the name of Air Sinai with unmarked aircraft for a reason.

Also @Ben, Arkia announced a week or two ago that they were going to launch flights to DXB as of JAN21

@edgar

What an asinine thing to say.

FlyDubai is probably serving TLV due to diminished demand at the moment and it is easier to start at smaller capacity. Israel still has a 14 day quarantine for people who come in from out of the country. Also, there is quite a large immigrant worker community from India and the Philippines in Israel (not as big as UAE, but significant) - so this is probably where demand will start (at the low end of things). Tourism and business travel will pickup post-COVID (obviously).

Looking at the route map, the majority of the destination overlap between FZ and EK happens to be in the Middle East. And considering that Emirates' smallest plane is a 777, a FlyDubai 737 probably allows for more frequencies without dumping too much capacity in a market.

I'll help all of you out. I will say it so you don't need to:

Thanks President Trump for negotiating this groundbreaking peace accord.

@freedom

What leverage do Malaysia and Indonesia have over the U.A.E.? I'm not being sarcastic here. I just don't see any clout whatsoever. If anything, it would be the other way round.

Great connection opportunities to Thailand and the far East. El Al watch your back

It is not about the clout, but about not pissing off your customers unnecessarily.

Many Muslim countries are more conservative not to accept Israel

@freedom: I disagree- rather I think the agreements signed with Bahrain & the UAE will bring more Muslim majority countries following their footsteps. Sudan have already said so, Oman is also speculated. Other moderate countries like Morocco, Tunisia & Malaysia are prime candidates.

@Andreas,

I disagree. Without US meddling, the most is to keep the current state.

With all the bad about Iran, at least it is still a republic, Unlike those Middle East Muslim kingdoms with absolute monarchy. They will sell everything to keep the kingdomship...

@ Lucky

Don't know about your information here, this is spreading misleading information. FlyDubai is not directly owned by Emirates and are NOT part of the Emirates group. Fly Dubai is directly owned by the government of Dubai not the Emirates Group which EK is, and while the Dubai govt. do own Emirates group, they are not directly part of the same company. They are just close partners.

Secondly, Fly Dubai is a low cost (budget) carrier dissimilar from Emirates being full service.

And there are actually several markets both Fly Dubai and Emirates serve:

Ahmedabad, Baghdad, Bahrain, Basra, Chennai, Colombo, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Entebbe, Hyderabad, Istanbul, Jeddah, Kabul, Karachi, Kochi, Kuwait, Male, Mumbai, Muscat, Prague, Riyadh, Sialkot.

That's 24 and I am sure I missed a few. I personally would not call 24 routes "very few".

A fact check and accurate language would have been nice.

Will it be possible to book on Emirates & Flydubai, connecting through Dubai as a single itinerary?

@SC

Yes, book it on Emirates, and the Fly Dubai option should come up.

There is No quarantine in Israel for visitors coming from UAE

@freedom...I don't want this travel blog to become a political forum but you have absolutely no clue at what you are talking about as you certainly how no idea of the mess and crap going on in Iran...UAE has taken the most sensible step by establishing ties!