{"id":272520,"date":"2025-08-25T04:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/el-al-israel-new-wizz-air-base-security-threat\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:46:58","slug":"el-al-israel-argues-new-wizz-air-tel-aviv-base-represents-state-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=272520","title":{"rendered":"El Al Israel Argues New Wizz Air Tel Aviv Base Represents State Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254828\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/el-al\/\"  >EL AL<\/a><\/span> is objecting to Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air&#8217;s attempts to establish a base at Tel Aviv&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258477\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ben-gurion-airport\/\"  >Ben Gurion Airport<\/a><\/span> (TLV), deeming it &#8220;of substantial harm&#8221; to both Israeli airlines and the country itself. Fellow airlines <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256926\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/arkia\/\"  >Arkia<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255441\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/israir\/\"  >Israir<\/a><\/span> have also sent letters to authorities seeking to block the move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wizz is looking to establish an operational base at Ben Gurion Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,859,1275,858,1223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-ben-gurion-airport","category-el-al","category-israel","category-wizz-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272521,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272520\/revisions\/272521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}