Israelis do not cancel trips to the UAE after the incident on the Flydubai flight

Brief retelling from RIA II

Karina Sarkisyants, head of the outbound tourism department of the Israeli tour operator Atlantis Travel & Tourism Ltd, said that Israelis did not massively cancel trips to Arab countries, including the UAE.

According to Sarkisyants, despite the cancellation of Flydubai flights, prices and demand for tickets to the UAE have not changed.

The Israeli authorities and the UAE Prosecutor General's Office called the emergency on the Flydubai flight an attempted terrorist attack.

TEL AVIV, October 6 – RIA Novosti. Israelis did not massively cancel trips to Arab countries, including the UAE, due to the recent emergency on a Flydubai flight, Karina Sarkisyants, head of the outbound tourism department of the large Israeli tour operator Atlantis Travel & Tourism Ltd, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“No, they won’t cancel it,” she said.

Sarkisyants also noted that despite the cancellation of Flydubai flights, prices and demand for tickets to the UAE have not changed.

A Flydubai plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30 signaled an emergency and a short time later made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The airline later confirmed that a fight broke out between the pilots during the flight. Later, information appeared in the media that one of the pilots injured the second and wanted to cause a plane crash. This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by passengers on that flight.