United Airlines is preparing to resume nonstop flight services from New York to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on September 8, with flights operating out of Newark, New Jersey.

“United still plans to resume service between Newark and Tel Aviv on September 8 with two daily flights,” the US airline said Friday in an e-mailed statement.

United previously put the route on hold through September 7 after repeatedly suspending Israel operations following the closure of the country’s airspace to most commercial traffic on February 28 at the onset of the US-Israel war with Iran. Ben Gurion Airport has since been fully reopened with foreign airlines slowly resuming their flight services to Israel.

Last week, US rival American Airlines announced that it will not resume flights to and from Israel before March 27, 2027, while Delta’s New York and Atlanta routes to Tel Aviv are suspended through September 5.

The hiatus........

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