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No response from federal agency to lawmaker about suspended flights to Israel

Rep. Marc Molinaro told “Jewish Insider” that the Federal Aviation Administration has been stonewalling him.

Travelers at the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.
Travelers at the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

The Federal Aviation Administration, a U.S. federal agency, hasn’t responded to questions from Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) about its guidance to U.S. airlines in the wake of widespread canceled flights to Israel, Jewish Insider reported.

Molinaro, a member of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, had given the FAA administrator until Sept. 6 to respond, per Jewish Insider.

The lawmaker told the publication that “with no answers and Jewish travelers left in limbo, there’s a growing perception that the FAA and DOT,” the U.S. Department of Transportation, “are getting involved in anti-Israel politics. They fear this is a boycott.”

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