United Brings Back Tel Aviv Service

The Chicago-based airline is slated to join Delta and resume service to Tel Aviv starting next month with up to two daily flights.

Ryan Ewing

Tuesday, February 04, 2025 at 09:18 AM ET

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A United 787 Dreamliner descends into Amsterdam. (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Fabian Behr)

Key Takeaways:

United is the latest U.S. airline to announce plans to return to Israel. The Chicago-based airline is slated to join Delta and resume service to Tel Aviv starting next month.

Daily flights from the carrier’s Newark, New Jersey, hub will restart on March 15. A second daily service will begin on March 29.

“This resumption follows a detailed assessment of operational considerations for the region and close work with the unions who represent our flight attendants and pilots,” the carrier stated in a news release.

The airline will operate Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners on the route.

United briefly resumed service to Tel Aviv in early 2024 but halted flights again. The carrier initially suspended service in 2023 following the Israel-Hamas war.

American has yet to announce plans to resume service to the country. Delta’s New York-JFK to Tel Aviv flights are set to restart on April 1.

Ryan Ewing

Ryan founded AirlineGeeks.com in February 2013 and has spent more than a decade covering the airline business. His work has been featured by CNN, WJLA, CNET, and Business Insider. His aviation experience spans airport operations, Part 135 regulatory compliance, and airline crew workforce planning, along with time behind the yoke of a Cessna 172 and interviews with airline executives. Ryan now serves as Group President of Firecrown Media’s Aviation Group. He holds a B.S. in Air Transportation Management and an MBA from Arizona State University and teaches Airline Management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.