I monitored availability in the days leading up to the flight and one more seat became available in a discounted fare class, so I grabbed it. I booked two weeks before departure, and when I did, there was just one business-class seat left for purchase in the full-fare “J” class. There’s lots of pent-up demand for travel to Israel, and that’s been translating to higher fares in both business and premium economy.
In This PostĪmerican’s New York to Tel Aviv flight is available for purchase through all the traditional booking channels.Ī note about availability: Since the flight launched - and especially in recent weeks with Israel’s reopening - it’s been full.Ĭase in point: My Saturday night departure was sold out in business class, had one empty premium economy recliner and just seven empty coach seats. How would American’s Israel relaunch stack up against the incumbents? I couldn’t wait to find out.įor more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. In the past, I’ve flown with American’s three competitors in the New York-Tel Aviv market (Delta, United and Israel’s flag carrier, El Al), and I even had the opportunity to try US Airways’ Philly flight before it ended in January 2016. When I first heard the news that Israel was reopening to vaccinated tourists, I knew which airline I needed to try: American. As for service from Miami and Dallas-Fort Worth, the former is an “opportunistic move,” while the latter has been in the works for a while. This time around, American’s New York flight is buoyed by the Northeast Alliance with JetBlue, which is designed to provide additional domestic feed through JFK. Since then, the carrier has added a second route from Miami (MIA) and has plans to launch a third from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) on March 5, 2022.Īmerican inherited US Airways’ longest route from Philadelphia (PHL) to Tel Aviv during the merger, but cut the flight just months after absorbing the airline, noting “the route had not been profitable.”
That changed on May 6, when American Airlines landed in Tel Aviv (TLV) once again, with a brand-new route from New York-JFK. Before last summer, the world’s largest airline hadn’t flown to Israel in over five years.
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