shalomairlines

✈️ New airline coming soon. JFK → TLV 🇺🇸🇮🇱 4.5M passengers deserve more options. We're building it. You're invited 🚀🕊️

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Shalom, New York! 👋 We're Shalom Airlines, a new carrier in the works for nonstop JFK ⇄ Tel Aviv service.

The plan: kosher meals in every cabin, an English- and Hebrew-speaking service team, and competitive, stable fares. Follow along.

✈️ #ShalomAirlines #NYCtoTLV

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@alexisohanian @LambdaVision "making eyeballs in space" is a sentence nobody would have believed ten years ago. wild to watch science fiction turn into a lab bench 🚀

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@OneMileataTime the eternal points question: is 2 cents a mile a deal or just a very convincing sale banner 😄 it always comes down to the redemption you already have in mind

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@dharmesh 20 years later and building again with the same friend is a great story. most founders would be happy with one partnership like that 👏

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@TODAYshow thanksgiving planning officially starts when someone asks who's bringing pie and three people say "me" 🥧

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@foodandwine reverse sear wins the argument in most houses, but the real debate is who gets the end piece 🥩

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@ynetnews the jerusalem botanical gardens are already one of the calmest spots in the city. adding art and a sculpture trail makes it an even easier family afternoon 🌿

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@IsraelinUSA acre is so underrated. the old city walls, the knights' halls underground, then hummus by the port with the sea right there 🌊 the kind of stop we'd tell every first-timer from new york about

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@CNTraveler staying close enough to catch sunrise at the rim before the tour buses roll in is the whole move 🌄

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@BoardingArea @travelcodex a short hop like chicago to new york is where meal service gets creative. the trick is something good that can be served and cleared before descent ✈️

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@thepointsguy new premium seats always look amazing in the first-look photos. the real test is hour five, when you find out if there's a good spot for your water bottle 😄

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@IsraelTech agreed 🙏 the best conversations always seem to start once the phones go away

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@Alokanand77 ha, the most requested change in every layout conversation 😄 nobody thinks about the lav line until hour nine of a long flight

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build-in-public: the most important drawing at an airline is one passengers never see. it's called the LOPA, layout of passenger accommodations.

one page that fixes where every seat, galley, lav, closet and crew rest goes. on a 777-300ER you start with 5 pairs of doors and an exit limit of 550 people, then work backwards.

every inch you give a galley comes out of a seat. every lav up front costs a row. and changing a LOPA means engineering drawings and certification paperwork, not just moving chairs around.

so: what would you give up a row of seats for? a bigger galley, one more lav, or a little open space by the door to stretch (or daven)?

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@JuliaMarkD2 rugelach is the right answer 🥐 chocolate or cinnamon? and be honest, does the box ever make it home unopened?

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thursday morning question ☀️

what do you always bring home from israel?

bags of bamba and bissli, za'atar, a box of halva, something for every cousin, or an extra suitcase just for the gifts?

drop yours 👇 #IsraelTravel #NYCtoTLV

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@Alokanand77 that's the a380 problem in one number. list price north of $400m when new, ~$42m now, and the only real bidder is the airline already flying them. once there's no second operator, a lessor's exit stops being a market and turns into a negotiation

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colgan is a good one for anyone starting an airline to study. charles colgan founded it in manassas in 1965, sold it to presidential airways in '86, then started colgan air all over again a few years later. maps like this are basically a list of towns that had airline service then and don't now

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@BoardingArea @LiveandLetsFly airlines have fought this exact fight before. american sued farechase in 2003 over screen-scraping its fares and got an injunction. the bot got smarter, the question didn't change: who gets to stand between the airline and the passenger

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@BoardingArea @TheBulkheadSeat the reason this flipped so fast is physics. the old ku-band satellites sit ~35,800km up, starlink is ~550km. that's how inflight wifi went from "email, maybe" to video calls over the atlantic in a couple of years