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Etihad to start daily Tel Aviv flights in 2021

Air travel is a major part of the newly established relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
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Etihad Airways will start daily flights to Israel in 2021, the Abu-Dhabi based airline has announced. The news is the latest indication of the steadily deepening relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following their normalization deal.

Etihad will begin daily, year-round flights to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv starting in March, according to a Monday press release.

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