(live here) – The new Israeli airline "Air Haifa" will start operating on June 1, 2024, flights from Haifa to Eilat, as well as to nearby destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean basin such as Greece and Turkey.
historical progress
As you may remember, the Haifa low cost company "Air Haifa" was launched in July 2023 and according to its plans it will operate all its flights from the Haifa airport. With the launch, the company began working to promote obtaining an aviation license from the Ministry of Transportation. Minister of Transportation Miri Regev revealed and announced yesterday, Wednesday 27/3/24, as part of her participation in the "Real Estate Center" conference being held these days in Eilat, that "Air Haifa" company will start operating in Israel at the beginning of June.
Minister Miri Regev said at the conference in an interview with journalist Ofer Petersburg, that the entry of the Israeli company Air Haifa into the market is a historical precedent, since for the first time in decades, another Israeli airline is entering to operate in the country. Haifa's low cost company "Air Haifa" will start operating on June 1, 2024, flights from Haifa to Eilat, as well as to nearby destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean basin such as Greece and Turkey.
The CEO of Haifa Airport, Meir Cohen, said at the launch ceremony of the flight line from Haifa Airport to Paphos and Larnaca in June 2023 that he all hoped that flights from Haifa to Eilat would resume operating and here it will happen exactly about a year after he hoped it would happen and precisely the flights would be operated by an Israeli airline since at that time Israeli companies did not want to fly from Haifa airport and he even turned to the Ministry of Transportation to allow licenses to be given to foreign companies since they would operate internal flights from Haifa to Eilat.
Residents from Haifa and the surrounding area have complained in recent years, especially since the outbreak of the Corona virus, that there are no flights from the airport in the city, including flights to nearby destinations, such as Greece and Cyprus, as well as flights to Eilat. Even though the corona epidemic ended, the airport continued to stand deserted until last summer 2023, as mentioned, a flight line was launched from Haifa Airport to Paphos and Larnaca, but Eilat had no response. We hope that with the new news, the residents of Haifa and the surrounding area will benefit from and enjoy long-term and non-periodic flights to destinations close to Eilat and who knows, maybe the duty free that was inaugurated only in 2017 and operated for 2-3 years will also operate again.
Hey, I would like to know when he will open flights to Eilat from Haifa
There are flights to Eilat in October
I'm looking for flights?!
It was promised that they would start in July, but they didn't say a year
What will happen to whoever gives an answer?
did you lie
I don't understand if it is opened or not
the loan???? What is low cost to you????? 5 euros. Don't say price not bought
Take me where there is a casino and I will come
Stop bribing us with crappy perks. Let's go home! Hezbollah won! And you don't do anything with Enza that they occupied dozens of settlements in the north
It seems to me that they confused Turkey with Cyprus, although I don't think the Arabs have a problem with Turkey.
Waiting for you to learn to write without errors
Enough with Turkey. Not enough for you? How quick you can be to forget. Stop bashing Turkey
A day will come when Erdogan will apologize and then all the Israelis will return
Haifa Eilat and back no more than 100 dollars otherwise there is Egged
Einat Kalish, thanks to her wide vision, saved the airport before it was almost sold and came to life.
It's you who voted for the cliche……many are looking for you...
An airport at sea is the solution for everyone, there is no noise. There is no taking of real estate for anyone, there will also be a solution for traffic jams, it will be possible to transport passengers by sea
(public maritime transport) livelihood will be abundant. competition that everyone will benefit from.
In short, only good came out of it. So who is being imitated?
The cost of the airport for small planes is expensive, so the state that directly finances and hates Israel from the legal crime family will also lose law-abiding citizens
Literally an article by Jews about business with Jews and flights by Jews with Jewish reporters. There is everything except money, that is, the estimate of the price of the ticket... that's how it is. It's a matter of mentality and character.
Good Morning
Instead of explanations, ramblings, and nonsense.
About how many of you know everything, and understand everything. In numbers, estimates and billboards in the millions.
Give a flight from Haifa to Cyprus at a cheap price as it should be.
And as it was years ago...
Dear Eyal, I suggest that you already repay the guru who, God willing, has finally disappeared from our lives...she and her false visions and all the written promises that brought her to power, faded very quickly after her election and we were left not only with five wasted years but literally with crying for generations.
A complementary airport for Israel cannot be in the location that Klish wanted in Haifa. It is simply not possible to extend the routes, and even if it were, it is not suitable from an aviation point of view as a complement to Israel. The only options in the north are Ramat David, with significant damage to the Jezreel Valley and terrible and terrible noise for the residents of Kiryat and Tivon, or a tested proposal that has been praised by experts - an airport on an artificial island in front of the coast of the Castle of Carmel. In the meantime, the existing field with a runway of 1650 m that is suitable for Boeing 737 Embraer 175 planes that can fly to European capitals and also reach Dubai or Eilat and from there to all of Asia and Africa...
The Port of the Gulf has proven that large-scale sea drying that enables an airport to be located in ideal conditions for takeoffs and landings from the sea is not a dream but a real possibility, and one that can be carried out in a few years and with advanced sea drying technologies, which now exist in Israel after the projects in Ashdod and Haifa.
As stated, the air corridor of the National Airport is limited - while an international field on the coastline in the Haifa Bay enjoys greater proximity to Europe and an unlimited air corridor. Such an airport, with two runways in the drying arm of the area in the Haifa Bay north of the Gulf Port and connected by a travel route only from the point of views of the Gulf Port (at a height of 100 m and from this point landings near them are not allowed), it will be possible to establish an international field with 10 million passengers.
For the residents of Kiryat and Haifa, the island will be seen as an arm of land that continues the port of the Gulf. There will be no aircraft noise at all because the landing and take-off will be carried out directly from the direction of the sea. Flights will be shortened by half an hour compared to Haifa, which will make a field in Haifa highly sought after by low-cost airlines. A 25-minute high-speed train to Tel Aviv will make the field very attractive to tourists and residents of the center. It is for this reason that the Haifa Board is doing every trick to prevent an international field in Haifa . With proper management, such a field will become not only a secondary gate, but a central gate for air aviation to Israel.
With proper operation of the new municipality, it is possible to speed up the planning and drying of routes at sea and at the same time planning a logistics terminal for 10 million passengers in the area of the existing airport. Closing it for 5 years and drying up the sea until 2030 using the BOT method in which a franchisee will enjoy operating the field after the construction of the runways and the terminal and the inauguration of the Haifa field in 2030, when the metropolis will have 1.5 million inhabitants and a high-speed train to Tel Aviv will already be operating.
This is a game changer in turning Haifa into a world city and not a sleepy suburb of Gush Dan.
The immediate connection between the airfield and the two large seaports next to it will make Haifa a preferred shipping and transportation destination. The field will allow millions of Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i pilgrims interested in holy sites in the Galilee region to have a short 'weekend' vacation for 3-4 days in Haifa and the northern sites and will lead to an increase in tourism and accommodation services by hundreds of percent.
International companies that currently open headquarters only in Gush Dan will be able to locate in Haifa thanks to the proximity to an international field and good connectivity. The field could also be used for rapid transportation of agricultural produce between Greece and Israel.
The removal of the petrochemistry will allow the check post to be restored as an advanced business district near the international airport.
All these advantages only require a planning and urban push that will bring about a real change in Haifa's economy and in its transformation from a sleepy northern suburb to an international city.
The flights will be made in outdated planes. It is not certain that they are safe.
These are also small planes with 45 seats. So there will probably be expensive flights.
Which planes will operate? Does the company have planes? Staff ? What is the article for at all if there are no details?
Good news, Samar
It's not that there are really flights from Haifa..
After October, Israar canceled my insurance from Haifa due to the war, but after 3 months they returned the money minus NIS 100 treatment fees. And I ask Rami Levy why? By what authority are you doing this. There were 6000 cancellations and you pocketed 600 thousand shekels, you brat!!!
It's a shame they don't publish a link to the article I wrote here on July 15, 2, which was highly praised, for the benefit that will accrue to us and the residents of the south when we unite the activities of the two desolate airports in Haifa and Eilat (Ramon). Ramon Airport can be used for us as an airport for connection flights to Asia, Africa and the Emirates. This is exactly what will add great economic benefit to all parties: the passengers, the airport authority, the airlines and the state. And so it will be possible to postpone for another ten years the construction of the supplementary field for the Netbg.
It too must be built in the north and we have shown a practical alternative for building it on an artificial island opposite the coast of Tirat Carmel, 3 km from the coast.
Hello Yaron. There is very little logic in your plan regarding flights from Haifa to Ramon Airport and from there to destinations in the world.
First of all, it makes no sense to drag the residents of the north to Haifa to take small planes from Haifa to Ramon and from Ramon to long flights.
It makes sense to establish for all the residents of the north (3 million) an international airport that will be a real alternative to Israel and solve the bottleneck created by the limited airspace for Israel.
Ramon Airport will not serve as a connection to Asia because it does not have any capabilities to offer international airlines to operate there in the format of the "father" - this requires close accommodation for air crews, advanced port services, unlimited landing and takeoff capabilities (Ramon is limited).
You yourself say: this way it will be possible to postpone the supplementary airport for Israel by 10 years
Let's ask the question why postpone? After all, the need for a second international airport in the north has already been recognized by the Kadima government with the Minister of Transportation Mofaz, and even then there was talk of the immediate importance of proceeding to land drying in the sea and increasing the runways of the airport in Haifa.
There is no doubt that the north, which is expected to grow to 5 million inhabitants, must have an airport, the National Airport and the roads and trains to it will not withstand the loads and must compete with the National Airport in terms of reaching the end of the load even after adding another arm.
Immediately the state must set out to establish an airport with the drying of 2 runways into the sea and create a supplementary airport for 10 million passengers. It is impossible to postpone and postpone.