PALESTINE AIRWAYS LIMITED

IATA: - ICAO: - FOUNDED: 18 DEC 1934 CEASED OPERATIONS: AUG 1940

HISTORY: PALESTINE AIRWAYS LIMITED was an airline founded in British Palestine, in conjunction with the Histadrut and the Jewish Agency. The airline was registered as a private aviation company on 18 December 1934, with assistance from Imperial Airways whose crew piloted and serviced the aircraft and handled passenger check-in. Based in Haifa, on 11 August 1937 it commenced commercial flights 3 times a week to Lydda. This line operated for several months, but was discontinued when Arab hostilities worsened, and the danger to passengers travelling from Tel Aviv, the main Jewish population centre, to Lydda Airport through Arab majority territory overland, became too great. In 1938 Palestinian Airways moved its main base to the newly built Tel Aviv Airport (in 1940 renamed Sde Dov) and commenced operations on the Tel Aviv to Haifa route, flying twice a day in their de Havilland Rapide. From September 1938, the route was extended from Haifa to Beirut. Palestine Airways ceased operations in August 1940 when its aircraft were taken over by the RAF for use in the war effort as transport and communication aircraft.

 

 

29/9/1935 (From Haifa to Tel Aviv)

 

 

 

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