{"id":628742,"date":"2026-09-27T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628742\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:38:10","slug":"mauritius-denies-landing-permit-to-flight-from-israel-forcing-cancellation-tour-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628742\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius denies landing permit to flight from Israel, forcing cancellation: Tour operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n<p>27 September 2026\u2022Update: 27 September 2026<\/p>\n<p>Mauritius on Saturday refused landing clearance for a scheduled flight from Israel, forcing its cancellation after efforts to secure approval failed, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Ynet news website said the Air Seychelles flight was due to depart Israel for Mauritius but was called off after authorities did not grant permission for it to land.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit World Productions, the Israeli tour operator behind the trip, said the flight had received approvals several months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it had been informed that the refusal was based on \u201cpolitical and diplomatic considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mauritian authorities have yet to comment on the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, sources familiar with the matter told Israel\u2019s Channel 12 that the refusal was linked to absence of the Mauritius delegation during this week&#8217;s address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit World Productions said it was working with Air Seychelles and authorities on arrangements for affected passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarek Chouiref 27 September 2026\u2022Update: 27 September 2026 Mauritius on Saturday refused landing clearance for a scheduled flight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-628742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}