{"id":324011,"date":"2026-08-18T13:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324011\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:52:31","slug":"israir-plans-new-york-flights-starting-october-after-us-transport-dept-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324011\/","title":{"rendered":"Israir plans New York flights starting October after US Transport Dept. approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli low-cost airline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/travel\/article-903151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israir Airlines<\/a> received approval to sell tickets for flights to the US, the airline announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Transportation gave the initial approval to sell tickets, the airline stated, while noting that the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-903862\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> (FAA) is continuing the review before granting final approval for Israir to operate flights to the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israir &#8220;is in continuous contact with the FAA and is working in full cooperation with the relevant authorities, with the expectation that the approval proces will be completed as soon as possible,&#8221; the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as the FAA authorizes Israir to fly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/all-news\/article-904354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>&#8230; Israir will immediately start operating the flights, and, as a result, start selling tickets,&#8221; the airline stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The airline is planning to operate flights on the New York route from October 19 onwards, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">As of August 18, the flights are not available on the website. Tickets are expected to go on sale from &#8220;next week,&#8221; the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>Israir&#8217;s other destinations include only two locations outside Europe and the Caucasus, namely, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and Marrakesh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-905593\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morocco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli low-cost airline Israir Airlines received approval to sell tickets for flights to the US, the airline announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10997,112940,15617,119780,9,11,10,13368,956],"class_list":["post-324011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-airlines","tag-ben-gurion-airport","tag-flights","tag-israir","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-spotlight","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}