Italian airline ITA Airways is joining the ranks of airlines resuming flights to Israel as the situation calms down with the Gaza truce, and will gradually resume its air connections between Tel Aviv and Rome from February after many months of suspended flights.
“Starting from February 1, connections will gradually resume” between Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport and Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, “initially on a daily basis” and “with an additional night flight” from February 16, the airline said in a statement.
Thus, it is planned that there will be a daily daytime flight from Tel Aviv to Rome and another from Rome to Tel Aviv, while from mid-February there will also be two night flights with the same routes.
All of this, ITA warned, “will be subject to the evolution of the geopolitical scenario in the Middle East” following the implementation on Sunday of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, with a first phase of 42 days of exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners and, subject to the success of negotiations, two subsequent stages.
The resumption of flights to Israel from Italy is also due to cooperation between Italian and Israeli authorities, “It is strategically important for ITA Airways as it strengthens commercial, social and cultural relations between the two markets,” Add.
In the face of the conflict in the Middle East, ITA Airways temporarily cancelled its flights from Rome to Tel Aviv last summer and has practically not flown to Israel since then.
In recent years, like other countries in Europe,, the influx of Israeli tourists to Italy has been considerable.
Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.