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Jun 30, 2023 (newstodate): SAS is mulling plans for a return of services between Scandinavia and Israel.
   According to Israel's Ministry of Tourism's Director Nordic Countires, SAS earlier this month submitted an official request to Israel's Civil Aviation Authority to operate direct flights from Copenhagen and Stockholm to Tel Aviv, starting in January 2024.
   By the start of this month, SAS and El Al inked a code-share agreement to streamline flights between the two markets, according to a twitter post by Anko van der Werff, SAS CEO.
   Today, Norwegian is alone in offering flights to Tel Aviv from Copenhagen and Stockholm.
   Since 2000, direct air services were suspended as El Al and SAS that earlier served the route stopped services.   
   Cimber Sterling provided flights on the route from November 1, 2010, but pulled out again, officially due to hefty new demands on security by Israeli authorities.
   SAS then returned flights to Israel on June 4, 2012, with one weekly rotation on the route between Copenhagen Airport and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport, adding a second weekly flight from July, and increasing to three weekly rotations from October 28, 2012, using Airbus A319 aircraft on the route.
   SAS, however, pulled out again from the summer 2016 schedule, citing excessive operational costs and "political instability".