United Airlines resumes Boeing 787 flights to Israel

Star Alliance carrier United Airlines has become the first US airline to return with direct services to Israel since the October attacks in the region. All three big US carriers, United, American, and Delta, paused their operations in Israel last year. United Airlines will initially relaunch its service from Newark but has not committed to relaunching flights from other US airports. March 2nd and 4th saw services from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) via Munich, Germany. However, non-stop operations will kick off on March 6th. For the ten-hour trip, UA84 is expected to push back from Newark at 15:55 with an expected arrival time in Tel Aviv at 09:20. According to Flightradar24, the service will be operated by one of the carrier's Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, bearing the registration N13018. It has just one year of operations under its belt, after being delivered in October 2022. Scheduled to return on March 7th, the inbound service is expected to depart from Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) at 11:30 before returning to Newark by 16:40. As reported by the Times of Israel, the carrier hopes to relaunch a second direct service from Newark by May, while it continues to monitor the current situation in the region before making any scheduled adjustments. Before the conflict began, UA operated direct services from Newark, San Fransisco, Washington DC, and Chicago. However, these are not expected to resume before the fall. United released this statement regarding operations to Tel Aviv: “Will continue to monitor the situation in Tel Aviv and adjust the schedule as warranted, including changes to the resumed service from New York/Newark announced today.”<br/>