El Al Israel Airways Ltd. (TASE:ELAL) safety division has introduced that from Sunday it will be unable to function all its scheduled flights from Tel Aviv to Dubai, as a result of Israel and the UAE haven’t reached an settlement on safety preparations for Israeli airways flying on the route.
The disaster stems from Israel and the UAE not but signing an aviation settlement, as a result of the safety calls for of the Israel Safety Company (Shin Wager) for safety procedures at Dubai airport haven’t but been met.
To this point flights by Israeli airways between Tel Aviv and Dubai have been carried out utilizing non permanent approval. However not solely have the 2 international locations failed to succeed in settlement however the disaster has deepened. The CEOs of the Israeli airways despatched a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Minister of Overseas Affairs Yair Lapid and Minister of Transport Merav Michaeli saying, “It appears that there’s a massive hole between our hopes and the fact on the bottom. In observe we’re experiencing actual difficulties in working the flight schedule of Israeli airways to Dubai.”
The letter claims that from March 8, no approvals will probably be given to function the flights of Israeli airways from Dubai and till then the three Israeli airways will solely be permitted to function three flights per day. At current El Al, Arkia and Israir every function three flights a day from Dubai. However Emirates airline flyDubai will proceed being allowed to function between Dubai and Tel Aviv as ordinary.
Israeli airways have skilled related discriminatory issues over safety preparations for a few years relating to flights between Israel and Turkey – a route on which they’re unable to function flights. The identical factor is occurring with flights to Bahrain and is more likely to occur with flights to Morocco and Egypt (Sharm el-Sheikh).
The Israeli airways describe the scenario as unacceptable and they’re being pressured to cancel a whole lot of flights, for which tens of 1000’s of tickets have already been offered.
The Israeli airways additional describe the scenario as “discrimination that aggressively harms competitors in an try and seize market share below the guise of diplomatic issues.”
The implication of those remarks is that Emirates airline and its low-cost subsidiary flyDubai, which additionally in observe head the UAE civil aviation authority and have the ability to determine on touchdown and takeoff slots at Dubai airport, are inflicting the disaster.
The letter from the Israeli airways CEOs concluded, “There is no such thing as a answer right here however a transparent failure and give up to the dictates of business our bodies, which most likely have extra affect than us on forming the international coverage of their authorities.”
Diplomatic disaster?
It needs to be confused that whereas the Israel Safety Company (Shin Wager) is making an attempt to emphasise that this isn’t a diplomatic disaster however a safety dispute, this actually is a diplomatic disaster that requires the intervention of the prime minister and minister of international affairs. A scenario wherein Israeli airways are discriminated in opposition to contradicts the Abraham Accords, which features a clause about aviation between the 2 international locations, and it’s a drawback not just for the actions of the airways but in addition passengers.
The answer proposed by the Israeli airways is for an settlement that the Dubai administration approve the allocation of further safety tags for Israeli safety employees at Dubai airport and to set mutual and equal competitors for airways on the route – in different phrases if the operations of Israeli airways are restricted, the operations of Emirati airways can even be restricted.
The UAE says that the reduce to a few flights per day stems from the scarcity of ample manpower to adjust to Israeli safety necessities relating to outbound flights from Dubai to Israel. They insist this can be a non permanent answer to permit the continued negotiations to discover a appropriate everlasting answer.
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