The dispute is escalating over safety preparations at Dubai airport for the flights to Tel Aviv operated by Israeli airways. Sources inform “Globes” that the Israeli authorities will work in keeping with the precept of honest competitors and require the variety of every day flyDubai flights on the Tel Aviv – Dubai path to be restricted.
The aviation settlement between Israel and the UAE permits for 28 every day flights between Tel Aviv and Dubai. Every of Israel’s three airways – El Al, Arkia and Israir, every operated three every day flights on the route earlier than the dispute over safety preparations however have now been instructed by the Dubai authorities to restrict their every day flights to only one every on the route. Emirates airways low-cost unit flyDubai at the moment operates 4 every day flights between Dubai and Tel Aviv however will now be requested to chop the variety of flights.
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Greater than a yr after flights had been inaugurated between Tel Aviv and Dubai, following the signing of the Abraham Accords, no settlement has been signed on safety preparations for the flights. Israel’s Safety Company (Shin Guess) units the safety calls for for abroad flights at each airport that Israeli airways fly to and to this point flights have been performed below non permanent preparations.
Till this week, when the Israeli airways had been restricted to 1 every day flight there have been 13 every day flights between Tel Aviv and Dubai – three from every of the Israeli airways and 4 from flyDubai in addition to Etihad Airways flights between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. Many Israelis fly to the UAE after which on connection flights to Africa, Asia and Australia.
The dispute has led to delays in flights in current weeks and the cancellation of flights and representatives of El Al and Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority flew to Dubai to try to resolve the difficulty however to no avail.
The Israel Safety Company (Shin Guess) stated, “The operations of Israeli airways on the Israel-Dubai route have been allowed to this point attributable to preparations which Israeli our bodies reached with their Dubai counterparts, in keeping with the Israel safety ideas practiced all world wide. In current months, there was a dispute about safety between the licensed our bodies in Dubai and the Israeli aviation safety preparations, in a approach that has not allowed safety accountability for Israeli airways to be carried out.
Though the dispute just isn’t a diplomatic one, senior diplomatic figures from the 2 international locations are looking for an answer to the difficulty. In Dubai, it’s claimed that the Israeli calls for have created a safety autonomy inside the safety space at Dubai airport for Israeli airline flights and that the airports within the UAE metropolis is large, totally outfitted and serves many dozens of airways and international locations.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on February 17, 2022.
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