El Al Israel Airlines will cancel its scheduled flights until 2:00 a.m. on March 8 local time (9:00 a.m. on the same day Japan time).
In accordance with instructions from the authorities, the airline will announce updated information as soon as it becomes possible to operate alternative flights. For flights scheduled to depart by March 21, the airline has suspended new bookings until the security situation becomes clearer and measures for affected passengers on the canceled flights are arranged.
From March 5 local time, the airline will operate repatriation flights from Larnaca and Athens for Israeli citizens stranded outside Israel. Boarding from Tel Aviv will not be possible. Operations at Ben Gurion Airport have partially resumed, and according to the Embassy of Japan in Israel, for the time being operations will be limited to one flight per hour.
