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Flydubai launches first scheduled Dubai-Tel Aviv flight

Aircraft takes off from Emirati city in the southern Gulf for the nearly four-hour flight

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 26 Nov 2020 10:10PM

Flydubai launches first scheduled Dubai-Tel Aviv flight
Flydubai is a government-owned budget airline in based in the UAE. – November 26, 2020

DUBAI – Budget airline flydubai today launched direct flights to Tel Aviv, the first scheduled commercial service between the two cities, after the UAE and Israel agreed to normalise ties.

The aircraft took off from the Emirati city in the southern Gulf for the nearly four-hour flight, a spokesman for Dubai Airports told AFP. – AFP, November 26, 2020

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