Air Canada will resume service to Ben-Gurion International Airport in June, becoming the latest North American carrier to return to Tel Aviv after the Israel-Hamas war, the airline announced on Thursday.
The Canadian flag carrier will operate four weekly nonstop flights between Toronto and Tel Aviv starting on June 8, and will offer an additional direct weekly flight to and from Montreal from August.
United Airlines previously announced that it will renew daily flights to Tel Aviv from its hub at Newark starting on March 15, with a second daily flight beginning on March 29, becoming the first U.S. carrier to renew service to Israel.
The move by United—which offered the most flights to Israel of any U.S. carrier before the war—came after Delta Air Lines’ earlier announcement that it would renew service to Tel Aviv from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on April 1.
The resumption of service by United and Delta will effectively end the monopoly Israel’s flagship carrier El Al had on the lucrative transatlantic route through most of the 15-month-long war, which sent fares skyrocketing amid charges of price gouging.
American Airlines remains the only North American legacy carrier that has not announced when it plans to restart service to Israel.
