Israir Airlines Ltd. has submitted this week a request to operate commercial flights from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport to the sea-side Sharm el-Sheikh resort city in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The company would like to operate two flights a day. So far, no Israeli air flight company offered this route. Israeli tourists wishing to visit Sharm el-Sheikh and its environs could either rent private planes or arrive there by bus or taxi.
Flights from Tel Aviv to Sharm el-Sheikh should take an hour and 10 minutes. The company has not yet decided how much it will charge for the flight, but it did indicate it would also like to operate flights from Haifa.
