IAD380 From United States of America, joined May 2006, 804 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 2442 times:
According to ynetnews.com and the Air France website in Israel, AF will fly three times a week between NCE and TLV, starting on April 4, 2012. AF will operate either an A319 on an A320 on this route.
IAD380 From United States of America, joined May 2006, 804 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2342 times:
Quoting ju068 (Reply 1): I wonder if Marseille would make more sense, since the city has the second largest Jewish population in France (80,000).
LY already flies to Marseilles. Nice seems to cater to a different market.
LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22248 posts, RR: 51 Reply 4, posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2304 times:
Yes announced a while back as part of the build up of Nice
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21679 posts, RR: 23 Reply 6, posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1202 times:
Quoting dennys (Reply 5):
AF flew 707s NYC LIS NCE TLV 3 x a week in summer of 1968 and 1969
Was the same flight number used all the way? It's very rare that bilaterals permit 6th freedom services via an airline's home country to use a single flight number between two 3rd countries.
hkg212 From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2008, 126 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1065 times:
Quoting ju068 (Reply 1): I wonder if Marseille would make more sense, since the city has the second largest Jewish population in France (80,000).
Quoting dennys (Reply 5): But the Jewish community is still strongin Nice .
Local Jewish communities have little to do with European routes to and from TLV. Otherwise you wouldn't have regular non-hub links to cities like BCN, BSL, CGN, CPH, BER, GVA, BUD, VIE, MXP, BRU, and other cities with no significant Jewish population.
The reason seems pretty straightforward to me. Israelis travel a lot to Europe on vacation, and Tel Aviv (recently named "best gay city in the world 2011") has become a popular holiday destination from Europe. There is more to O/D than ethnic affiliation.
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