Israir

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Israir Airlines is an airline based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It operates domestic scheduled and air taxi flights from Sde Dov Airport, Tel Aviv, as well as Haifa and Eilat, and international charter services from Ovda Airport and Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, to Europe, Africa, and New York. It also operates VIP and cargo flights.

Contents

1 History
2 Services

3 Fleet
4 External links

History

The airline was established in 1989 as Kanfei HaEmek (Valley Wings). It changed its name to Israir in 1996 and international flights began in 1999. It is wholly owned by the Ganden Group. Charter service between Tel Aviv and JFK International Airport in New York began in June, 2004. After permission was granted by the Israeli government and the FAA, Israir's charter service between Tel Aviv and New York has been converted to regular scheduled service which started May 1, 2006.

Services

Israir Airlines operates the following services (as of May 2006):

Israir Boeing 757 at Ben Gurion Airport

Croatia
Rijeka (Rijeka Airport)
France
Paris (Charles de Gaulle International Airport)
Nice (Côte d'Azur International Airport)
Germany
Berlin (Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport)
Munich (Munich International Airport)
Greece
Athens (Eleftherios Venizelos Airport)
Italy
Rome (Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport)
Spain
Barcelona (El Prat International Airport)
United Kingdom
*London (London Stansted Airport)

United States
*New York
**New York City (John F. Kennedy International Airport)

Israel
Eilat (Eilat Airport)
Haifa (Haifa Airport)
Rosh Pina (Ben Ya'aqov Airport)
Tel Aviv
(Ben Gurion International Airport) Hub
(Sde Dov Airport) Hub

Fleet

The Israir Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of June 2005):

4 ATR 42-320 - 4X-ATN, 4X-ATO, 4X-ATM, 4X-ATL
2 Boeing 757-200 - 4X-EBM, 4X-EBI
1 Boeing 767-300, leased from Icelandair - TF-FIC

After Israir was granted permission to operate scheduled service on the lucrative New York-Tel Aviv route, in spring 2006 it entered talks with both Boeing and Airbus regarding the acquisition of new aircraft to its fleet and replacement of its existing jets. The company is said to be in talks with Boeing over the 787 model. [link]

External links

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