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El Al flights were inaugurated to the Far East [when?] and, in 1995, El Al signed its first codesharing agreement with American Airlines. [18] In February 1995, the receivership under which the airline had technically been operating since 1982 came to an end. [37] In June 1996, El Al recorded its first flight from Israel to Amman, Jordan. [24]
On 30 January 2020, El Al suspended flights to Beijing because of the outbreak of COVID-19. [6] In March 2020 the airline saw reduced demand and cancelled flights to Europe. El Al proposed in early March 2020 to lay off 1 in 6 of its 6,200 employees.
[3]: 10 Flight Engineer Sofer was the most experienced crew member on the flight, with more than 26,000 hours of flight experience, of which 15,000 were on the Boeing 747. [3]: 10–11 Captain Yitzhak Fuchs had flown for El Al for 28 years (since 1964) and had previously served in the Israeli Air Force for 10 years. First Officer Arnon Ohad had ...
Sundor was established on 1 October 1977 as El Al Charter Services Ltd., as a subsidiary of El Al at a time when the airline was fully owned by the State. The airline changed its name in 1981 to Sundor (d’Or means "of Gold" in French), and soon after, Uriel Yashiv, the CEO of the airline at the time, chose to add "International Airlines" to ...
Scholars of political science and terrorism studies have characterized the hijacking as a new era of terrorism as the first aviation attack motivated by political aims. [5] [6] According to David C. Rapoport, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the modern wave of left-wing terrorism began with the hijacking of the El Al Flight 426 in the ...
El Al Flight 402 was an international passenger flight from London to Tel Aviv via Vienna and Istanbul. On 27 July 1955, the flight, operated by a Lockheed Constellation registered as 4X-AKC, strayed into then- Communist Bulgarian airspace and was attacked by two Bulgarian MiG-15 jet fighters, crashing near Petrich .
An El Al Boeing 747-258B. The Hindawi affair was a failed attempt to bomb El Al Flight 016, [1] from London to Tel Aviv in April 1986 by Nezar Nawwaf al-Mansur al-Hindawi (Arabic: نزار نواف منصور الهنداوي, born 1954), a Jordanian citizen.
The inaugural flight was an El Al flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Work on Natbag 2000 , as the Terminal 3 project was known, was scheduled for completion prior to 2000 in order to handle a massive influx of pilgrims expected for the Millennium celebrations .