JERUSALEM, June 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. carrier United Airlines has resumed flights to Israel after a suspension of more than a month.
Flight UA84 departed from Newark Liberty International Airport in New York on Thursday and landed at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Friday.
United Airlines suspended its operations in Israel on May 4 after a missile fired from Yemen by the Houthi group exploded near Ben Gurion Airport. The incident prompted several international airlines to suspend flights to the country, with only a few having since resumed service.
Among those resuming operations is Latvia's national airline, airBaltic, which completed a flight from Riga International Airport to Tel Aviv on Friday.
Meanwhile, Germany's Lufthansa Group, which includes Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, ITA Airways, and Eurowings, announced Friday that it will gradually restart flights to Israel on June 23.
However, several international carriers have yet to resume service, including Air India, British Airways, Italy's ITA Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Spain's Iberia Express, Air Seychelles, and Europe's major budget airline, Ryanair. ■
