{"id":631492,"date":"2024-01-27T07:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=631492"},"modified":"2024-01-27T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T03:12:18","slug":"israels-el-al-airline-suspends-south-africa-route-over-world-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/israels-el-al-airline-suspends-south-africa-route-over-world-court-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s El Al airline suspends South Africa route over World Court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Al Israel Airlines said on Friday it was suspending its route to Johannesburg at the end of March, citing a steep drop in demand after South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the World Court. <\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s flag carrier flies up to twice weekly nonstop to Johannesburg. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israelis don&#8217;t want to fly to South Africa,&#8221; said an El Al spokesperson. &#8220;They are cancelling flights and planes are pretty empty&#8230; We understand it&#8217;s the situation because it was different before. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that the Israelis don&#8217;t want to go to South Africa but do want to go to other places helps us decide that we&#8217;re pausing that route,&#8221; she said. The company also cited the current security situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Al Israel Airlines said on Friday it was suspending its route to Johannesburg at the end of March, citing a steep drop in demand after South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the World Court. Israel&#8217;s flag carrier flies up to twice weekly nonstop to Johannesburg. &#8220;Israelis don&#8217;t want to fly to South Africa,&#8221; said an El Al spokesperson. &#8220;They are cancelling flights and planes are pretty empty&#8230; We understand it&#8217;s the situation because it was different before. &#8220;The fact that the Israelis don&#8217;t want to go to South Africa but do want to go to other places helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}