{"id":282493,"date":"2026-09-07T19:43:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/282493\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:43:37","slug":"delta-and-united-announce-resumption-of-israel-flights-ahead-of-high-holy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/282493\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta and United announce resumption of Israel flights ahead of High Holy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Travel consultants said it would take time for airfares to drop, and that the much-needed competition on the lucrative transatlantic route would most clearly affect pricing after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world\/high-holy-days-terror-threat-update-for-jews-and-israelis-abroad-j2l9nwl3\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn holiday season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is curious that while Delta has aggressively been marketing their return with attractive fares, United has taken the opposite approach,\u201d Mark Feldman, CEO of Jerusalem\u2019s Ziontours, told JNS on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have priced their flights for the remainder of 2026 at very high prices in their economy, Premium Economy and Business classes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Service from additional US\u00a0cities to Israel will resume later this year.<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s flights from Chicago and Washington\u00a0DC\u00a0will restart in October, while Delta\u2019s flights from Atlanta will begin service in December.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines remains the outlier among the three major legacy carriers and has again pushed back its return to Tel Aviv until next spring.<\/p>\n<p>By next month, five airlines are scheduled to fly direct between the US\u00a0and Israel: El Al, Arkia, Israir, United and Delta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis month should prove to be a fascinating exercise in consumer decision-making,\u201d Feldman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel consultants said it would take time for airfares to drop, and that the much-needed competition on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[2622,539,75267,37,55411,8138,462,256],"class_list":["post-282493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-airlines","tag-ben-gurion-airport","tag-high-holy-days","tag-israel","tag-israeli-travel","tag-jewish-travel","tag-travel","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117231472320398162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}