- Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:47am by Jonathon M. Seidl
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“Egypt Air, the largest airline in Egypt, has removed Israel from the map – literally,” the Israeli news outlet Ynetnews.com reports. “On its website, Ynet has learned, Jordan’s land reaches the Mediterranean Sea.”
According to the outlet, looking past Israel’s existence is odd considering one of it subsidiaries, Air Sinai, regularly flies to the tiny, Jewish country.
“On the map are the names of the Mideast capitals – Amman, Beirut, and Damascus – but Israel is nowhere to be found,” YNet says. “The omission is especially odd seeing as the company continues to fly to Israel four times a week.”
YNet does note that flights from Cairo to to Tel Aviv had been temporally halted due to unrest in Egypt, but they were eventually reinstated. However, if you try to book that route on the main Egypt Air website, you’ll be unsuccessful: