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The additional flights are part of a rising trend in incoming tourism to Israel.
Delta Airlines, one of the world's largest airlines, is to add another four weekly flights to its New York-Tel Aviv route beginning June 2009, according to an announcement by the airline company to the Ministry of Tourism.
More info can be found here:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038491.html
Israel was also just downgraded by the FAA into a lower grade of safety, so Israeli airlines for the moment can't add more flights to the US. With the situation there relatively calm and stable and more long-range a/c coming online thanks to the NW merger, Delta is taking the opportunity to grab market share.
Thats great news, although I hope they get smart and use some of their planes equipped with ptv's