El Al pilots and flight attendants refused to take up a tender to man the prime minister’s scheduled flight to Rome later this week.
Published: MARCH 5, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on their way to Saloniki, Greece for a two-day state official visit. June 14, 2017
(photo credit: AMOS BEN GERSHOM/GPO)
Israel’s national airline El Al pilots left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, high and dry after no one volunteered to fly Israel’s first couple out to Rome for a state visit to Italy scheduled later this week, El Al Airlines said on Sunday.
The deadline of a tender issued by Israel’s national airline, as is required when the prime minister is set to depart on a commercial airline, expired at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday and was met with indifference by El Al pilots and flight attendants, who refused to take up the opportunity.
Later on Sunday evening, El Al announced that it had finally found a crew to fly the Netanyahu couple out to Italy.
source https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-733416
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