Israir has closed its booking system to prevent customers from purchasing tickets during the closure

Israir has closed its booking system to prevent customers from purchasing tickets during the closure and encountering barriers at the entrance to Ben Gurion Airport. This is in line with government guidelines that since last Friday it has not been possible to purchase tickets for flights abroad.
Israir flights for which tickets were purchased until last Friday will take place as a usher and whoever bought tickets abroad during the holidays, his flight will take off. Israir said that the decision not to sell tickets to those who want to leave on closing days will cost the company La she claims.
The company's CEO, Uri Sirkis, said that according to a legal opinion received by the company, restricting departures from Israel to those seeking to fly to green countries, "could be interpreted as problematic in the tests of reasonableness and discrimination." To date, no foreign airline has announced the cancellation of flights, due to closure restrictions. A United company that has continued to fly daily to the US throughout the corona period has stated that there is currently no change in daily flights from the US.
Tali Laufer, director general of the Association of Travel Ministries, sent a letter to Transportation Minister Miri Regev and Finance Minister Israel Katz yesterday, calling for a change in the decision to sell airline tickets for existing flights in the system. From last Friday.
"The cancellation of the flights, beyond the heavy costs involved in canceling all existing bookings, is that the state, whose decision to ban the sale of tickets led to their cancellation, will have to bear tens of millions of shekels for rescue flights or cover partially empty flight costs.
"We are urging you to correct the decision so that it will be possible to continue selling tickets for the scheduled flights that have already been approved for departure from Ben Gurion Airport by the end of Sukkot. Alternatively, we will ask that the state approve that it will carry out the rescue flights in case of cancellation of the flights or alternatively that it will bear the cost of the empty flights in part. I would like to emphasize that we ask for your urgent attention, since in the event that flights are canceled and the organization of rescue flights is required by the state, a decision must be made as soon as possible. "