Jewish media reported that Israeli airlines received Saudi Arabia’s permission to cross their airspace, while the Saudi authorities did not immediately comment on Israeli media reports.
Israel 24’s official channel indicated that “Israeli airlines: El Al, Israir and Arka’a have received permission from Saudi Arabia to fly over its airspace, and this permission came into effect from yesterday, Wednesday.” She added: “Saudi Arabia will also allow foreign companies to fly over its airspace on flights to Israel, a move that will help reduce the duration of flights by Israeli companies to the Middle East, such as the El Al flight to Thailand. will be reduced to eight and a half hours, while the Arkia flight will be reduced to eight and a half hours. “to Mumbai in India will be reduced to five and a quarter hours.”
The same Israeli channel pointed out that the Seychelles airline announced that it had received official permission from Riyadh to fly over Saudi airspace during its operation by the airline between the Seychelles and Israel, pointing to the company’s flight, which yesterday, in Wednesday, crossed the airspace of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. To the Republic of Seychelles, a multi-island country in Africa located in the Indian Ocean, and added that Air Seychelles operates three direct weekly flights between Israel and the Republic of Seychelles using an Airbus A320neo aircraft. on their flights, and the flight takes 6 hours and 20 minutes.
As Israeli news site The Times of Israel reported on Thursday: “A commercial flight bound for Israel entered Saudi airspace for the first time on Thursday as Saudi Arabia opened its airspace to all flights, including Israeli ones, last month and the flight. who took off. It was operated by Cathay Pacific Airlines in Hong Kong from the airport last and was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv on Thursday morning, and the flight tracking service showed that the aircraft was flying over the United Arab Emirates. and the Persian Gulf before crossing the coast of Saudi Arabia near the city of Dammam. The aircraft flew over northern Saudi Arabia and Jordan before entering Israeli airspace north of the Dead Sea.
On July 15, the Saudi Arabian General Authority for Civil Aviation announced the opening of its airspace to all air carriers that meet the authorities’ airspace crossing requirements, without making a decision excluding Israeli civil aircraft.
Source: El Nashra