Air Seychelles to connect Tel Aviv from Nov 27

July 10, 2019: Effective November 27, 2019, Air Seychelles will commence service linking Seychelles and Israel's largest metropolitan area, Tel Aviv. The flight will be operated by the new A320neo aircraft %u2018Veuve, S7-VEV' scheduled to be delivered by the end of July.

The flight has been carefully timed to provide business and leisure traveller's convenient connections over Seychelles to Mauritius, Johannesburg, and Mumbai.

Located in the Mediterranean coast, Tel Aviv is known for its thriving metropolis with vibrant shopping and nightlife experience. At the same time, Jerusalem located nearby is famous for its life-changing pilgrimage tours around the Holy Land.

For those planning to extend their holidays or business trips to other destinations, flight connections from Tel Aviv provide the most direct and fastest ways to reach Europe or even the United States from Seychelles.

The national airline will also be adding El Al Israel Airlines to its list of interline partners as part of its network expansion to provide onward connections to over 20 destinations across Europe via the Ben Gurion International Airport.

Michael Berlouis, chief financial officer of Air Seychelles said, "The creation of the first ever air corridor between Seychelles and Tel Aviv will strengthen business, tourism and cultural ties between the two countries in addition to boosting traffic and onward connections to other destinations across our network. We are also expecting to gain significant volumes of traffic from the European market once we have established the agreement with El Al Airlines of which we are working closely with at the moment."