Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary revealed the airline is unlikely to resume flights to Israel due to security-related operational issues in Tel Aviv. Ryanair plans to resume flights to Jordan in September or October 2025.
Flights to Tel Aviv have been suspended for months amid the Gaza conflict, with challenges including terminal switches during security threats.
Michael O’Leary shared: “As long as it is safe to fly there, we’ll be happy fly to Israel, we’re happy to fly to Jordan and I can’t wait to go back and fly to Ukraine. We’re talking to the Israelis at the moment. I’m not sure if we’re going to go back or not. We have been messed around by the Israelis. One of the problems we have in Tel Aviv, is that there is a low-cost terminal and a normal terminal. Every time there is a security threat, they force everyone from the low-cost terminal into the high-cost terminal.”
“I have limited patience. I think there’s a real possibility that we won’t bother going back to Israel after the cessation of the current war that’s going on there. Unless the Israelis get their act together and stop messing us around, we have far more growth elsewhere in Europe.”
