The Israel Airports Authority today (Monday) turned to El Al, demanding that it pay its debts to the authority - by the end of the week.
According to a report in Kan News, the Authority sent a letter to the company stating that if it does not pay the debts, which amount to tens of millions of shekels, they will take legal action and foreclose. This is at a time when the company is in difficulties and is working to promote an efficiency plan and restore flight operations.
Meanwhile, El Al plans to restart flights to the United States immediately after Shavuot, after more than two months in which the routes were shut down. The flights will depart once a week to New York and Los Angeles.
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Additionally, in June, passenger flights will operate on various dates from Tel Aviv to Paris and London. The flights will be operated on the company's Dreamliner aircraft.
In addition, Israel is expected to begin talks in the near future with additional countries with low morbidity - not only in Europe, with the goal of finding countries from which tourists will also come to Israel and help the Israeli economy.
The talks held today with Austria and Montenegro were described as "excellent, and a positive start.".
One of the main issues in talks with the countries is who will finance the stay of an Israeli tourist who falls ill or needs isolation while staying abroad.
At El Al, negotiations between pilot representatives, the workers' committee, and management ran into a snag today.
The meeting they held to try to agree on cuts blew up after it degenerated into chair-throwing and almost beatings, according to one participant in the discussion. The Histadrut accuses El Al's general workers' committee of blowing up the meeting and acting contrary to Histadrut instructions.
Due to the dispute, Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar David suspended all members of the El Al Workers' Council.
