Travel

Airline purchases 20 Boom Supersonic Overture jets – designed to fly twice the speed of today's fastest commercial aircraft – slated to roll out in 2025 and carry its first passengers by 2029.

Dina Ben-Tal says while Israel's flagship carrier has permission to fly over Saudi Arabia, it needs access to Omani airspace to avoid Iran and cut down travel time to Asia.

Some 250,000 tourist entries were recorded last month, up from just 49,000 a year earlier when Israel's borders were not fully open. In July 2019, a record year for tourism, the country attracted 323,000 visitors.

Ticketed passenger posts Twitter exchange with United, challenging them about the reasons for the cancellation, which include a nonexistent "curfew" at Ben-Gurion International Airport.

The German airline will also adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism after 100 identifiably Jewish individuals were barred from a flight on May 4.

Belinda Desoyo Lee Marcelo of the United Arab Emirates was greeted by Israeli Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov and ministry officials.

During check-out, Israelis traveling from Paris to Tel Aviv, discover that Dutch airline Transavia does not have Israel on its list of countries, but does include Palestine. 

Security and diplomatic officials say that while the threat to Israeli tourists in Gulf and Middle East countries is not concrete, it could become imminent if "Tehran gets desperate” for reprisal over what it believes is Israeli attacks against IRGC officers.

The National Security Council's Counterterrorism Bureau reiterates its travel warning to Turkey.

Turkish tour guide Burak Ortak says that although Israelis traveling in Istanbul are nervous about the recently-issued travel warning, police officers stationed in the area provide a sense of security.