JERUSALEM, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian low-cost carrier group Wizz Air resumed its flights to Israel on Friday after suspending them in October last year due to the outbreak of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
Until the conflict, Wizz Air was the most active foreign airline at Ben Gurion International Airport in 2023, transporting 2 million passengers through the airport for the year, according to an annual report from the Israel Airports Authority.
Wizz Air resumed operations in Israel with a flight from Budapest to Tel Aviv, marking one of six routes the airline announced to resume in its initial stage.
The others are on the routes between Tel Aviv and London, Rome, Bucharest, Sofia, and Krakow, with three weekly flights on each route.
This marks a partial resumption of its activity as the airline operated more than 100 weekly flights to Israel on 28 routes before the conflict.
Most non-Israeli airlines suspended their flights to Israel after the conflict broke out, and some of them, including Lufthansa, Swiss, and Air France, have already resumed operations in the country.
On Saturday, United Airlines flights from Newark to Tel Aviv and Cyprus Airways flights on the Larnaca-Tel Aviv route are expected to resume, according to announcements by the two airlines. ■
