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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]
El Al was established by the Israeli government in November 1948 (). [1] Initially offering a weekly service between Tel Aviv and Paris in 1949, [2] the airline began flying to many European destinations the same year, with services to the United States and South Africa starting in 1951. [1]
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 ...
On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The accident is known in Dutch as the Bijlmerramp (Bijlmer disaster).
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 ...
Israel's El Al Airlines said on Wednesday it was boosting cargo capacity to meet high demand for shipments of equipment to Israeli soldiers and families impacted by the war with Hamas. Israel's ...
Up was planned to cease operations by October 2018 and all flights and aircraft would return to El Al. [5] [9] El Al therefore introduced a new fare structure to replace the Up offers. [5] The last flights took place on 14 October 2018. As of 2023, some El Al aircraft that were formerly part of Up still have the cloud livery.
Days before the attack, European and American authorities warned European airlines about bomb threats during the pre-Christmas holiday rush. [1]The incident came five months after a group of self-styled Palestinian Arab commandos hijacked El Al Flight 426 on July 23, shortly after it took-off from Rome for Tel Aviv and forced it to fly to Algiers.