El Al announces direct flights between Tel Aviv and Melbourne

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Israeli airline eyes non-stop route to Australia

El Al has announced its intention of testing the possibility of operating direct, non-stop flights between Tel Aviv and Melbourne.
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This is exciting news for travelers to Israel but from a frequent flyer perspective, it will be interesting to see whether we will be able to redeem Qantas points for this route. Personally, I would like to see Alaska Airlines start opening up more opportunities for passengers from Australia to use mileage plan and this would be a great one. Thoughts?
 
yoyo said:
www.traveller.com.au

Israeli airline eyes non-stop route to Australia

El Al has announced its intention of testing the possibility of operating direct, non-stop flights between Tel Aviv and Melbourne.
www.traveller.com.au www.traveller.com.au

This is exciting news for travelers to Israel but from a frequent flyer perspective, it will be interesting to see whether we will be able to redeem Qantas points for this route. Personally, I would like to see Alaska Airlines start opening up more opportunities for passengers from Australia to use mileage plan and this would be a great one. Thoughts?
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This sounds great for a trip in a couple of years time.
 
yoyo said:
www.traveller.com.au

Israeli airline eyes non-stop route to Australia

El Al has announced its intention of testing the possibility of operating direct, non-stop flights between Tel Aviv and Melbourne.
www.traveller.com.au www.traveller.com.au

This is exciting news for travelers to Israel but from a frequent flyer perspective, it will be interesting to see whether we will be able to redeem Qantas points for this route. Personally, I would like to see Alaska Airlines start opening up more opportunities for passengers from Australia to use mileage plan and this would be a great one. Thoughts?
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When I was booking my flights to Europe, through Qantas site, there was more FFQ seats on El Al than any other airline. I would assume that due to the direct partnership agreement between El Al and Qantas, this direct flight will be eligible to be redeemed with Qantas points.
 
Well it looks like these flights probably won't happen now, but El Al is flying to Perth today (for a one-off repatriation flight).
 
Mattg said:
Well it looks like these flights probably won't happen now, but El Al is flying to Perth today (for a one-off repatriation flight).
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Wow, seriously? How did my mum's travel agent not know about this. She is flying back to PER from TLV today. Having to go LY to CDG and then QR via DOH to PER.
 
EL AL just landed another historical flight into Melbourne! It's another repatriation flight and due to leave this evening to return to Israel.
 
Daver6 said:
Makes sense. There is a decent expat community in Israel.
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That PR flight never got off the ground: I don't know why, but PR not having spare aircraft is one probable reason (apart from lack of likely demand).

If LY manages to commence a MEL-Israel flight, fares are unlikely to be cheap, so doubtful it would offer an alternative for (say) journeys to Europe or even the USA instead of Asian airlines or ME carriers such as EK, EY, GF, QR or WY.

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