EasyJet has suspended flights to Tel Aviv for the next six months following Iran's missile and drone attack against Israel at the weekend. The airline said it will halt flights until 27 October, blaming "the continued evolving situation in Israel". EasyJet had only recently resumed flying to Tel Aviv following Hamas' assault on Israel last year, sparking a war on the Gaza Strip. The company said: "Customers booked to fly on this route up this date are being offered options including a full refund." Iran carried out the strike – its first-ever direct attack against Israel – after vowing retaliation for the bombing of its consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus. Israel has not admitted that it carried out the consulate attack, which killed a number of senior Iranian commanders, but is widely believed to be behind the strike. Tensions are high over how Israel will respond to Iran's attack, which was carried out between Saturday night and Sunday morning, with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant saying the confrontation with Iran is "not over yet".<br/>
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El Al states that a class action which accused the Israeli flag-carrier’s ticketing system of unfairly charging higher fares has been rejected in a legal judgement. The airline had disclosed last year that the class action had been filed which alleged potential damages amounting to 147m shekels ($40m). It had centred on a claim that, prior to purchase of a group of tickets, the carrier’s ticket system moved all the fares to a higher price bracket. The claim had argued that the multiple tickets – typically two, three or more – cost far more than they would have if purchased individually. It focused on ticket purchases over a seven-year period which, it said, could have been made at a lower cost. But El Al says that a 14 April judgement was issued “rejecting the request [for the class action] outright” and assigning El Al’s legal costs to the applicant.<br/>
Flydubai said on Tuesday it temporally suspended all of its flights departing from Dubai until Wednesday morning due to bad weather, the UAE state news agency WAM reported. "All flydubai flights scheduled for departure from Dubai this evening (16 April) have been canceled effective immediately until 10:00 (Dubai local time) on 17 April. During this period, passengers who do not have Dubai as their final destination will not be accepted for travel," a flyDubai spokesperson was quoted as saying. Dubai International Airport (DXB) had been temporarily diverting arriving flights on Tuesday evening until weather conditions improve, while keeping the departures operational. The website for Dubai airport, one of the world's busiest, shows dozens of flights on April 16 delayed or canceled, with affected destinations including India, Pakistan, Saudi and the United Kingdom. Adverse weather hit other locations in the Gulf Peninsula, including Oman, where at least 18 people have been killed due to heavy rains in recent days, its state news agency said.<br/>