Airlines cancel flights to Israel

[malaise]

on safety grounds.

[MoonRiver]

1. Makes sense after the MH17 horror. n/t

[alsame]

2. Foreign airlines just announced:

Foreign airlines with safety concerns have also canceled flights to Israel. These include:

• Air France

• Lufthansa

• Germanwings

• Austrian Airlines

• Swiss International Air Lines

• Air Canada

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2014/07/22/airline-ban-suspend-flights-israel/12999389/

[jakeXT]

3. What's missing now is an Icelandic volcano erupting/nt

[Coventina]

4. Just now?!?!?

Should have been done days ago.

But then, I'm scared to fly as it is.

[betterdemsonly]

5. Kind of a sly way of boycotting war monger states n/t

[malaise]

6. Yep particularly when they were begging you not to do it

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-gaza-conflict-2014/1.606655
<snip>

Israel has been in touch with the United States, Russia and international aviation authorities over the past two weeks in an effort to prevent them from canceling flights to Israel amid an escalation in fighting with the Gaza Strip.

An internal Civil Aviation Authority document reveals that the country is taking pains to avoid flight cancelations, despite rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel and the Israel Defense Forces operation in the Strip.

The document, signed by CAA Director General Giora Romm, describes what has been happening behind the scenes:

“The Civil Aviation Authority has been in contact with international aviation bodies,” it says, “For example, it has been in ongoing contact with the upper echelon of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration - the FAA - and with Russia, via the Russian transportation minister.

[alsame]

7. Bibi asks Kerry to

reverse.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/netanyahu-reportedly-urges-kerry-to-get-faas-israel-flight-ban-reversed/

[malaise]

10. Fugg Bibi

When the economy starts to bite, the people of Israel will remove that war criminal asap.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. Smart idea. N/T