El Al LY008 which will land in Ben Gurion afternoon marks an end of El Al's jumbo fleet

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by Ifi Reporter Category:Financial Sep 15, 2019
 
El Al Flight LY008, which will land in Tel Aviv this afternoon, marks the end of El Al's jumbo fleet operation on the New York route. Since 1971, the company has operated tens of thousands of flights on this route on jumbo jets.
The closure of El Al's jumbo fleet is part of the company's strategic move to take out old aircraft from service and replace it with new and advanced aircraft. This week, El Al will join its new Dreamliner fleet, the Boeing 787-9 12th, called "Jerusalem of Gold." By March 2020, another 4 additional planes of 787-8 are expected to enter the service.
Since 1971, a variety of jumbo jets have been operated at El Al, and after tens of thousands of flights from Ben Gurion Airport to New York, the company is separate from operating this fleet on this route to New York.
The 747-400 fleet is expected to officially close at the end of October 2019 as part of the company's strategic move to take out old aircraft from service and replace it with newer and more advanced aircraft such as the Dreamliner and Boeing 777. This week El Al will join its new DreamLiner fleet 787-9 12, called "Jerusalem of Gold" and by March 2020 are expected to enter another four additional 787-8 aircraft.
A motion forclass action was approved last week against El Al for failing to respond to customers who did not pay for the port taxes paid. It is estimated that the repayments amount to at least NIS 40 million.

customers.
Airport fares are derived from airline fare and vary between airports in the world. Each airport authority determines the port charges it charges according to each flight. These taxes are collected from the passenger and paid to the airport by the airline. At El Al's website, the price of the airline ticket is detailed and each passenger can see in advance what the port taxes are derived from each ticket purchased.
In the lawsuit, El Al stated that an average of 3% of passengers do not show up for flights - some give advance notice and some do not. The Airport Authority does not require port taxes for passengers who have not actually flown. El Al claims that it replies to every passenger who did not fly port taxes after he initiated it, in the same breath the company does not deny that it did not address its passengers to unstable passengers and did not apply for a refund - in its opinion, it is not obligated to do so, but may be passive. . She also claimed that restoring port taxes to active customers is an act done "before the law."
According to data provided by El Al, these are huge sums: between 2007 and 2016, El Al's port taxes for those passengers who did not actually fly accumulated to the balance of about $ 69 million. The amount deposited to customers during this period is $ 57 million - directly by EL AL or through travel agents hence the balance of $ 11.75 million has not been recovered, approximately 78% of this amount embodies tickets purchased through travel agents. The plaintiff's claim that she asked about being used as a conduit for transferring money between the passenger and the airport, so she has no right to keep the funds that were not transferred at the same time, he believes that the method by which only those who return their money back is problematic when he claims that El Al's duty is to inform the customers themselves with The port taxes that passengers are entitled to receive back if they do not fly. EL AL has ruled out the definition as if it is a money transfer pipeline and that it does not have an active duty to repay passengers' money that did not fly.
The judge ruled that El Al was obliged to refund port taxes to customers who did not report for the flight. As far as the judge is concerned, whether the passenger turned actively or not or whether he purchased the ticket directly through it or through a travel agent he must receive the money. The judge noted the passengers who buy a ticket without cancellation and stated that most of them believed they were not entitled to any refund when they did not show up for the flight. El Al said that the ruling was not brought to their attention at this time

 

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