New Delhi-tel Aviv Flights

Air India's thrice a week Delhi-Tel Aviv non-stop flight will become a daily service shortly, with the airline giving its seal of approval to the proposal, encouraged by 80 per cent and above occupancy rate on the route, sources in the airline said.

Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel with the inauguration on Thursday of an Air India route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv.

National carrier Air India's maiden flight to Tel Aviv took off from New Delhi at 6 pm today, heralding a new chapter in the India-Israel ties and ending a decades-old overfly ban by Saudi Arabia.

Air India's thrice a week Delhi-Tel Aviv non-stop flight will become a daily service shortly, with the airline giving its seal of approval to the proposal, encouraged by 80 per cent and above occupancy rate on the route, sources in the airline said.

Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel with the inauguration on Thursday of an Air India route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv.

National carrier Air India's maiden flight to Tel Aviv took off from New Delhi at 6 pm today, heralding a new chapter in the India-Israel ties and ending a decades-old overfly ban by Saudi Arabia.