El Al and airspace ban question?

MiloDublin

I was looking at Flightradar24.com yesterday evening and noticed an EL AL flight that was approaching Tel Aviv from Bangkok, it was coming in over Jordan and the flight path showed a route over Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

I always though most Islamic states banned Israeli airlines from their airspace (Jordan, Egypt and Turkey being exceptions)

Has this policy changed or is Flightradar in error?

smurfjed

flight path showed a route over Saudi Arabia

Not allowed to enter Saudi Airspace, but there is a gap of airspace between Saudi and Egypt that they fly along, we can hear them transmitting blind on Saudi ATC channels, but they are never answered.

christy c

smurfjed wrote: »

we can hear them transmitting blind on Saudi ATC channels, but they are never answered.

Do you mind explaining that a little more? Are they just reporting position in case there's other traffic but the Saudis ignore it?

smurfjed

This is taken from the Jeppesen ATC section for Saudi Arabia:

UNCOORDINATED FLIGHTS OVER THE RED SEA Uncoordinated flights over the Red Sea shall comply with the following procedures:
a. squawk A2000 if no code was issued by the transferring authority;
b. RVSM compliant aircraft shall be in level flight and maintaining FL290 Southbound and FL300 Northbound;
c. non-RVSM compliant aircraft shall be in level flight and maintaining FL250 Southbound and FL260 Northbound;
d. communicate all flight details on the appropriate ACC frequencies;
e. flight details shall include: 1. call sign; 2. direction of flight; 3. flight level; 4. estimated time of crossing FIR boundaries and over or abeam reporting points along flight route.
f. flight details shall be broadcast 10 minutes prior to crossing FIR boundaries and 5 minutes prior to passing compulsory reporting points;
g. maintain a listening watch on appropriate ACC frequencies.