The financial financial Bezalel Smotrich and Minister of foreign activities announced by Gideon Saar on the weekend they were mainly in direct flights between Israel and Argentina. But the route will attract some passengers that even twice weekly flights are needed by government incentives, and an indirect routes, such as the US, is more expensive.
The explanatory notes to the ministers’ proposal say that the step has been taken “Due to the lack of direct flights between Israel and Due to the existence of a political interes with Argentina, and in the interest of developing Economic Relations. “
Thus, the Ministry of Economy will establish a mechanism to insult planes to operate commercial flights between Israel and Argentina with many days of flight. “As a general rule, the state does not support some entities for income to improve their profit,” it is written. “According to the position of professional foreign ministry officials, there is an important political interest in operating the Argentina flight routes.”
The Ministry of Transport is opposing
The Ministry of Transport opposes the proposal, and a letter from the Director of the Civil Aviation Authority Shmuel Zakay, which has been taken by globes, shone for its reasons. According to Zakay, the only company of Israel meets the definitions for operating such a flight and owner of a wide plane plane is El al. The suggestion that it is “to move a wide plane, which is a limited and expensive way of public development.
According to him, “a loss of capacity on a New York route due to re-route to result in the development of this route to open the US route to move the roads in chairs.”
Zakai emphasizes that market intervention is harmful to airplanes to connect Argentina flights with areas of destinations without economic reality for a direct flight. “
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Zakai suggests a new bilateral agreement in Argentina, allowing planes to operate such flights in their commercial discretion. The industry is afraid to fly an airplane without equity in economic, passengers of high-demand US destinations will pay the price to please the argentineans.
No response occurred from the Ministry of Finance or Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Published in Globes, Israel News in News – en.globes.co.il – On June 9, 2025.
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